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10 Forces Guiding the Future of Scripting

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the blur-the-line dept.

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."

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  1. Don't forget synergy... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    And twitter.

  2. 10 forces? by CaptainPatent · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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  3. All... most... there... by fahrbot-bot · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... Perl ... and other scripting tools are fast achieving the critical mass necessary to flourish into the future

    Ya, once Perl is used in a few more places, it'll have critical mass.

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  4. Re:Religion by thePowerOfGrayskull · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  5. "Co-optation"?? by jamrock · · Score: 4, Funny

    Oh. My. God.

    A million grammarians cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.

  6. Re:Clueless. by Bill,+Shooter+of+Bul · · Score: 3, Funny

    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 Well, either that or Larry Wall has an unpublished update to Physics::Lorentz.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

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  7. Re:Fast javascript by dgatwood · · Score: 3, Funny

    I too, would like to write server side code in the same language as the client side code... I just wish it would be the client side that would change. That way I wouldn't have to touch javascript ever again.

    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....

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  8. Re:coldfusion by I+cant+believe+its+n · · Score: 3, Funny

    Low energy nuclear reactions are useless when scripting

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