Introduction:
Are you Confused (yeah, I was too) about web-programming languages.
Well - OK, so here's your basics - to have a fundamental
understanding of what / who / how / etc. - read-on.
Languages that you will find mentioned if you 'hang-around' the
web-business for too long:
- HTML - Hyper Text Markup
Language the 'original' web-page language - about 99% of what you will
do in Mr. Bill's KISS program will be raw html - nothing else
- DHTML - Dynamic Hyper
Text Markup Language - the 'original language extended to incorporate
'Dynamic' content (created based on a specific request from the user
(web-browser-client-software)
- XHTML - Extensible Hyper
Text Markup Language - a way to 'extend' the original HTML which wasn't
originally intended to be 'extended'
- XML - Extensible Markup
Language - not 'really' a 'mark-up' language, but more a 'model' for
how to extend other languages?
- Java - a full-fledged
computer-programming language developed and marketed primarily by "Sun
Microsystems" - the makers of the ever-popular, famous, sometimes
infamous Sun Workstations class of Unix-based computers
- Java Script - Amazingly
enough Java Script has little to do with Java or Sun - it was
originally developed by Netscape Communications - it is really a
scripting language that can NOT read-write to the hard-disk (except to
read-write 'cookies') and it can not do a lot of other things to the
'host' computer but it can bring scripting to a web-page
- Java Applications -
mostly are 'full-fledged' applications for a computer that run
independently of a web-page environment
- Java Applets - are
basically small Java programs that run within the 'confines' of a
web-page foundation. Applets can not and do not exist outside of
a web-page, they are delivered to a computer within the code of a
web-page and are run within a web-browser (client-software) environment.
- perl - a basic scripting
language that is very very good at manipulating text-strings and tables
- it was originally developed about 20 years ago by Larry Wall for the
Unix operating system. It now runs on all platforms and has
a tremendous following in the Unix community and others - it basically
can run the same software "source code" on almost any computer
- PHP - Personal Home Page
- another scripting language primarily developed for the Web-Page market
- ...SQL... - anything with
the characters 'SQL' in them almost always means 'database' The
"SQL" means "Structured Query Language" and is based on code orignally
in the DB-1 and DB-2 database languages developed MANY decades ago,
originally on IBM Mainframe computers.
- DB - same as above
- Tcl / Tk - another
scripting language
- Ruby on Rails - yet one
more scripting languge
- c shell - one of the most
popular 'shell' programs developed on Unix - years ago before any
computers had GUIs (graphical screen and mouse) - when everything was
text-based
- tcsh - shell - one of the
most popular 'shell' programs developed on Unix - years ago
before any computers had GUIs (graphical screen and mouse) - when
everything was text-based
- bourne shell - one of the
most popular 'shell' programs developed on Unix - years ago
before any computers had GUIs (graphical screen and mouse) - when
everything was text-based
last updated: 21:38
p.m. Monday, 29 January, 2007; revID: 1c