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"Scripting (languages are) just getting more popular and powerful simply because they're easy to use," said Tim Huckaby, CEO of consulting firm and Microsoft partner InterKnowlogy.


Now you said something that can still be dumber. No scripting langauge is simpler. Think about what "simpler" means. In fact, they are frequently arcane and not safe for construction of solution. The program scripted is more difficult to debug. They perform worse, but for the purposes scripting languages are used... performance is sufficient.

The one who claims they are easier simply did not try any OO language or at least C or Pascal - far cleaner than any scripting language.

And by the way JavaScript, VBScript are also languages that help but far from safety or ease of use. I can tell at least about one case of debugging that creator could not figure ourt what was where and how it worked. Now with compiled OO languages at least there is a check if one did not do completely dumb things (yes you can still put your fancy factory method pattern still not understanding what it is for.. like many developers seem to do).

I claim that easy to learn and use was Basic of eightiees (and yes I know it as my roots in programming are a bit longer than average IT person these days - wnet throu quite a few languages over my career).

The real reason of scripting language use is quick and dirty coding for quick, dirty and immediate solution. That discounts one important factor of software development: maintainability not to mention some other issues.

Say what you want but CGI written in C had problem of lag in loading and perhaps resources. However nobody seemed to address this issues as making cheap labor for folks with disposable minds who could monkey type HTML, JavaScript, VBScript and few others took priority over improvement of technologies with known issues.
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Too bad sourceforge  Roger Ramjet | 05/13/05
The wrong message.  ceegh | 05/13/05
Do it "MY" way, or go without.  enduser_z | 05/13/05
Still short sighted.  ceegh | 05/17/05
This assumes that all Web projects start out large  Dan_Walker | 05/14/05
A little Elitist, aren't we?  el1jones | 05/14/05
Brother, you got that one right!!!  coffeenite | 05/16/05
Wow, maybe I can be an accountant too?  agramont@... | 05/13/05
I sympathize with you.  Yen_z | 05/13/05
Maybe, if you want  Dan_Walker | 05/14/05
WROX Press -- Dude, I'm Bummed  coffeenite | 05/16/05
Ummmm...what?  vdraken | 05/13/05
Yes  FirstNLastN | 05/13/05
What a pile of...  FirstNLastN | 05/13/05
wrong, dumb, stupid and MISLEADING  quietLee | 05/13/05
Scripted vs Object-Oriented  wildranger | 05/13/05
It is AOP not OOP wink (nt)  doe_z | 05/13/05
There is a place for everything.  doe_z | 05/13/05
Bingo!  ceegh | 05/17/05
Flexability of languages like PHP, in particular  Dan_Walker | 05/14/05
so you think businesses WANT to hire script kiddies to write apps. to run  wessonjoe | 05/17/05
Failures of ASP.NET  wildranger | 05/14/05
I do not witness any of what you are talking about, I'm afraid  Dan_Walker | 05/15/05
does anyone still use ASP.net?  hipparchus2000 | 05/16/05
PHP hobbyist????  hipparchus2000 | 05/16/05
Some of these posts here ...  coffeenite | 05/16/05
I disagree completely  hipparchus2000 | 05/16/05
Uh ... I'm not so sure about that ...  coffeenite | 05/16/05
output caching, etc  hipparchus2000 | 05/16/05
Sorry, I disagree...  wildranger | 05/16/05
good points but  hipparchus2000 | 05/17/05
....so have millions of businesses world-wide  wildranger | 05/17/05
in other words you have a financial interest in .net  hipparchus2000 | 05/17/05
New Scripting Language for .NET/Mono  ab@... | 05/17/05
I commend the author  ghekko | 06/27/06

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