10 Forces Guiding the Future of Scripting

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday October 13, 2008 @10:31AM 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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Re:Clueless. by sergstesh · 2008-10-13 11:20 · Score: 0, Redundant

You are both right and wrong. Perl 4 was released before Python and Perl 4 did not have OO model. Perl 5 was released well after Python (1997 ?) and Larry Wall now regrets about borrowing OO model from Python.