The State of the Scripting Universe: PHP, JavaScript, Ruby, Perl, Python, Tcl

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The State of the Scripting Universe: PHP, JavaScript, Ruby, Perl, Python, Tcl

08-30-2008, 10:58 AM,

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The State of the Scripting Universe: PHP, JavaScript, Ruby, Perl, Python, Tcl

Quote: The former second-class citizens of the programming world have leaped to the fore, changing the face of enterprise software development. With the rise of Web 2.0, scripting languages (also called dynamic languages) are now often considered important tools in a developer's arsenal. That's a far cry from than their old reputation as lesser tools for those who can't handle "real" programming.

Dynamic languages are certainly popular. Almost 70 percent of the 1,200 developers surveyed by Evans Data for its most recent Global Development Survey currently use JavaScript, the most popular dynamic language, with fifteen percent more planning to adopt it. PHP is used by just over a third of developers, and Perl has captured about a quarter of developers (though Perl is much more popular in North America, with 36 percent spending at least some of their time using it)...

full article: http://www.cio.com/article/446829/PHP_Ja...tId=446829&slug=&

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