THE WORLD OF SCRIPTING LANGUAGES

Book excerpt: Market_Desc: Programmers and Software Engineers wishing to broaden their experience of modern programming languages, Computer Science Students Special Features: This is the first book to survey a variety of the most important scripting languages, illustrating their use in a wide variety of application domains. In addition, the text explores object architectures such as COM, OLE, and ActiveX and how they rely on scripting." Provides a broad survey of scripting languages and their applications." Languages include: Perl V, Tcl, Word Basic, Java Script, Visual Basic, and VB Script." Color insert illustrates a variety of interface styles. About The Book: Scripting Languages have taken over from object-oriented languages as flavour of the decade, mainly because of the power and flexibility they provide (even for non-expert programmers) for developing graphical user interfaces. Scripting Languages are the basis of technologies on the World Wide Web, and office software suites such as Microsoft Office also rely heavily on them. This is the first book to survey a variety of the most important Scripting Languages, illustrating their use in a wide variety of application domains.