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Re: scripting: what is it? etc.

• Posted by Jason Gade <jaygade at yahoo.com> Feb 16, 2007
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Dan Moyer wrote:
> 
> Thanks everyone for your responses.
> 
> Maybe I've gotten a wrong idea about "scripting",
> I thought it also had to do with implementing "extra" 
> functions on web pages?
> 
> Dan

Scripting can implement extra functions on web pages, it's just not limited to
that. PHP is a scripting language used usually by a web server to provide extra
functionality, and then of course there is Javascript which does the same thing
on the client side. Both programming languages are considered "scripting"
languages.

A lot of message boards use PHP and MySQL. PHP draws the web pages and sends
queries to the backend database which actually stores the messages. Applications
like Google Maps use Javascript and a relatively new technology called AJAX
(Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) to provide richer user experiences and make web
applications more than just static pages of HTML.

So what is "scripting"? I guess it depends a lot on context  !

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"Any programming problem can be solved by adding a level of indirection."
--anonymous
"Any performance problem can be solved by removing a level of indirection."
--M. Haertel
"Premature optimization is the root of all evil in programming."
--C.A.R. Hoare
j.