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10 Forces Guiding the Future of Scripting
snydeq writes "InfoWorld examines the platforms and passions underlying today's popular dynamic languages, and though JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Groovy, and other scripting tools are fast achieving the critical mass necessary to flourish into the future, 10 forces in particular appear to be driving the evolution of this development domain. From the cooption of successful ideas across languages, to the infusion of application development into applications that are fast evolving beyond their traditional purpose, to the rise of frameworks, the cloud, and amateur code enablers, each will have a profound effect on the future of today's dynamic development tools."
And twitter.
though JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Groovy, and other scripting tools are fast achieving the critical mass necessary to flourish into the future
I didn't read the article, but from the summary I'll assume one of the forces is gravity.
It's too bad it's such a weak force.
Well, back to rejecting software patent applications.
Ya, once Perl is used in a few more places, it'll have critical mass.
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
Most human wars throughout the ages are based on religion. Scary, isn't it?
You think that's scary, you should've seen the camel wars.
Hm... I was offtopic to the post I was replying to? Or with the 'camel' reference, which is considered the symbol of the Perl language? Between those two, I managed to stay on topic both to this thread, and the article overall. (Didn't you wonder why the article was tagged with 'camel'?) Bah. Having to explain jokes just ruins the fun of 'em. I either need to learn to tell them better, or we need smarter moderators.
Oh. My. God.
A million grammarians cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.
I'm guessing that he meant to say " when Larry Wall decided to add an object system to Perl". As the Objects weren't added until 1994. So that's when the nabbing probably occurred. Well, either that or Larry Wall has an unpublished update to Physics::Lorentz.
perl history
Well.. maybe. Or Maybe not. But Definitely not sort of.
Now, now, now, there's nothing wrong with JavaScript that smoking a little crack while severely hung over can't fix.... :-D
But seriously, client-side PHP would totally rock. Or heck, I'd settle for a universal bytecode runtime standard that we could compile Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, etc. into for execution on any client. Kind of like Java, but without... you know, Java....
Check out my sci-fi/humor trilogy at PatriotsBooks.
...it was a mass, and critical. This was one of those "If there is a bug in this program, somebody dies" applications. Granted, almost all of the deaths were maintenance programmers. You know the drill -- a sudden rash of suicides and one horrific industrial accident involving a regexp gone horribly awry.
Help poke pirates in the eyepatch, arr.
Low energy nuclear reactions are useless when scripting
She made the willows dance
I've never come across an assembler instruction named "BNE". In x86 its "jne" and in Z80 IIRC its "jr". So save the patronising for someone who didn't do real assembler and keep your dumb made up opcodes to yourself
BNE is used in 6502 assembly. Keep your devilspawn CPUs to yourself.