Advanced Web
Technology
Mohammed Razid Lathief H
I MSc CS
Topics
– Introductions
– Basic Programming Language
– Applications
– Advantages and Disadvantages
– Differences between Scripting and Programming Languages
Introduction
A. All scripting languages are programming languages.
B. The scripting language is basically a language where instructions are written
for a run time environment.
C. They do not require the compilation step and are rather interpreted. It brings
new functions to applications and glue complex system together.
D. A scripting language is a programming language designed for integrating and
communicating with other programming languages.
Basic Scripting Language
There are many scripting languages some of them are discussed below:
– bash: It is a scripting language to work in the Linux interface. It is a lot easier to use bash to
create scripts than other programming languages. It describes the tools to use and code in
the command line and create useful reusable scripts and conserve documentation for other
people to work with.
– Node.js: It is a framework to write network applications using JavaScript. Corporate users of
Node.js include IBM, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Netflix, PayPal, Yahoo for real-time web
applications.
– Ruby: There are a lot of reasons to learn Ruby programming language. Ruby’s flexibility has
allowed developers to create innovative software. It is a scripting language which is great for
web development.
– Python: It is easy, free and open source. It supports procedure-oriented
programming and object-oriented programming. Python is an interpreted
language with dynamic semantics and huge lines of code are scripted and is
currently the most hyped language among developers.
– Perl: A scripting language with innovative features to make it different and
popular. Found on all windows and Linux servers. It helps in text manipulation
tasks. High traffic websites that use Perl extensively include priceline.com,
IMDB.
Applications
– Scripting languages are used on the server-side as well as the client-side and are
also widely used in web applications. The languages like JavaScript, Python,
PHP, and Perl are examples of server-side scripting languages, and JavaScript,
jQuery, AJAX are examples of client-side scripting languages.
– Like Python scripts, Perl, Shell is all the scripting languages, which are used in
system administration.
– It is used to construct plugins and extensions for current applications, as well as
in games and multimedia
Advantages
– Easy learning: In order to learn scripting languages, there is not much need for the knowledge
of web technology. Therefore, these languages enable users to learn code quickly.
– Fast editing: It is particularly efficient since it uses a small amount of data structures and
variables.
– Interactivity: It helps to make web pages more interactive by adding combinations and
visualization interfaces. The use of scripting languages is demanded by modern web pages. It
includes background and foreground colors and so on, which helps to create enhanced web
pages.
– Functionality: Scripting languages contain different libraries, which help to create new
applications in web browsers. They are different from normal programming languages.
Disadvantages
– It enables users to view and code that may be prohibited by some companies.
– These languages did not compile the file and interpret it directly, which need to
install an interpreter or separate program by the users before running the
script.
– Compared with a compiled program, scripting languages may be slow in some
situations.
Difference between Scripting and
Programming Languages
Scripting Language Programming Language
It is based on the Interpreter. It is based on the compiler.
It is used for combining existing components. It is used for developing from scratch.
It runs inside the program and is dependent on It is independent of a parent program.
it.
It functions to convert high-level instructions It works to convert the full program into
into machine language. machine language in one go.
It does not require compiling the file and It requires to compile the file first.
running directly.
It has no file type. It contains .exe file type.
Scripting Language Programming Language
It does not support data types, graphic design, It has rich support graphic design, data types,
and user interface design, or support limited. and user interface design.
Users can easily write and use it. It can be difficult to use and write.
It needs a host. It does not need a host as it is self-executable.
It requires low maintenance. It requires high maintenance.
Examples of scripting languages include VB Examples of programming languages include
Script, JavaScript, Perl, Ruby, and PHP. COBOL, Java, VB, Basic, C, C++, C#, and
Pascal.
