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."

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Only ONE script matters --THE BIBLE

[Anonymous Coward]

This is what it would be like, if the majority of people were atheists
ATHIEST KID: Mom, I'm going to go fuck a hooker.
ATHIEST MOM: Okay, son.
ATHIEST KID: Afterwards, I'm going to go smoke pot with my friends, since it's "not addictive."
ATHIEST MOM: Okay, come home soon!

The atheist kid leaves the room. The father comes home from work several minutes later.

ATHIEST DAD: Hey!
ATHIEST MOM: Hi, honey! I'm pregnant again. I guess I'll just get another abortion, since "fetuses don't count as human life."
ATHIEST DAD: Okay, get as many abortions as you want!
ATHIEST MOM: Oh, and don't go in the bedroom.
ATHIEST DAD: Why not?
ATHIEST MOM: There are two gay men fucking each other in there.
ATHIEST DAD: Why are they here?
ACHIEST MOM: I wanted to watch them do it for awhile. They just aren't finished yet.
ATHEIST DAD: Okay, that's fine with me!

Suddenly, their neighbor runs into the house.

ATHEIST NEIGHBOR: Come quick, there's a Christian outside!
ATHEIST MOM: We'll be right there!

The atheist couple quickly put on a pair of black robes and hoods. They then exit the house, and run into the street, where a Christian is nailed to a large, wooden X. He is being burned alive. A crowd of atheists stand around him, all wearing black robes and hoods.

RANDOM ATHEIST: Damn you, Christian! We hate you! We claim to be tolerant of all religions. But we really hate your's! That's because we atheists are hypocritical like that! Die, Christian!

THE END

Scary, isn't it?

OOP: use with care

[Tablizer]

PHP is much more like a natural human language, with all its flaws, than a language like Ruby. Most of the time you are scripting, you are hacking strings together and it doesn't really help if they are objects are not.

Some things work well as objects and some don't. Thus, its good to have a natural way to do procedural when needed. Languages created by object purists sometimes are difficult outside of object-land.

One thing I wish PHP had done was make no distinction between objects and associative arrays. Thus, foo.bar would be the same as the less natural foo['bar']. (The second needed if funny characters used.)