The World of Scripting Languages

Scripting Languages form the basis of technologies on the World Wide Web. Office software suites such as Microsoft Office also rely heavily on them. They provide power and flexibility (even for non-expert programmers) for developing graphical user interfaces. This text surveys a variety of the most important Scripting Languages, illustrating their use in a wide variety of application domains, including Perl V, Tcl, Word Basic, Java Script, Visual Basic, and VB Script. It also explores object architectures such as COM, OLE and ActiveX and how thery rely on scripting.