Examples of Scripting Languages

Prelim Topic

JavaScript

• Created by Brendan Eich in 1995

• Designed for client-side web interactivity and became the universal language of the web and expanded to server-side development via Node.js

PHP

• Created by Rasmus Lerdorf in 1994

• Designed for server-side web development and dynamic HTML, powers the majority of modern CMS platforms like WordPress and Wikipedia

Python

• Created by Gudio van Rossum in 1991

• Designed for high code readability and simplicity, is now the dominant language for AI, Data Science, and Scientific computing

Ruby

• Created by Yukihiro ‘Matz’ Matsumoto in 1995

• Is focused on programmer productivity and making coding fun by prioritizing human needs over computer execution, designed as a natural easy-to-read scripting language, revolutionized web development through Ruby on Rails framework

Perl

• Created by Larry Wall in 1987

• Designed for powerful text processing and reporting, often referred to as the swiss army knife of scripting languages, and a pioneer of Regular Expressions

Bash

• Created by Brian Fox in 1989 for the GNU Project

• Is it designed to automate command-line tasks in Unix-like systems, and is the industry standard for Linux system administration and DevOps automation

Powershell

• Created by Microsoft/Jeffrey Snover in 2006

• Is designed for task automation and configuration management, unique for being object-oriented (passing objects instead of text) and critical for Windows and Azure ecoystems

Lua

• Created at PUC-Rio in Brazil

• Designed as a lightweight, embeddable scripting language for C/C++ applications, the leading language for game scripting (ex. Roblox, WoW) and IoT devices