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Comments: 1 +- The State of Scripting Languages: Revisited on Friday August 29 2008, @12:10PM Esther Schindler
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Esther Schindler writes "Three years ago, Lynn Greiner interviewed the big cheeses responsible for the popular scripting languages PHP, Perl, Tcl, Python, Ruby and JavaScript to find out where they believed the languages were headed. In a follow-up discussion on CIO.com, The State of the Scripting Universe Revisited, she asks these dynamic language luminaries what has changed since she wrote the original article at DevSource.com. (That's not as weird as it sounds, as she had the same editor... me.)
Greiner interviews Norris Boyd (for JavaScript), Richard Dice (Perl), Jeff Hobbs (Tcl), Steve Holden (Python), John Lam (Ruby), and Rohan Pall (PHP), asking about the impact of Ajax on the acceptance of dynamic languages (in short: not a lot), and how perceptions have changed over the last three years. It's not as "rah-rah for my team!" as some might expect. For example, Hobbs said:
Greiner interviews Norris Boyd (for JavaScript), Richard Dice (Perl), Jeff Hobbs (Tcl), Steve Holden (Python), John Lam (Ruby), and Rohan Pall (PHP), asking about the impact of Ajax on the acceptance of dynamic languages (in short: not a lot), and how perceptions have changed over the last three years. It's not as "rah-rah for my team!" as some might expect. For example, Hobbs said:
"The dynamic languages are becoming more accepted. This is in part through more acceptance of open-source software, which all the dominant dynamic languages are (versus Java and
.Net, which are questionably open in their process and/or sources). It is also due to good frameworks being developed using newer languages such as Ruby on Rails. You also see larger organizations fostering support for the languages, such as Google's support of Python, which was made their primary development language for Google App Engine.
Do you think there have been changes that these guys didn't bring up?
"I don't think they could put him in a mental hospital. On the other
hand, if he were already in, I don't think they'd let him out."
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