Programming Languages/Web Programming The World of ScriptingLanguages David Barron The explosive growth of Internetapplications has seen a corresponding growth in the use anddevelopment of scripting languages. Their power and flexibilityenables even nonexpert programmers to prototype graphical userinterfaces more rapidly, end to develop sophisticated Web-basedapplications. This book provides an authoritative survey of themost important scripting languages and illustrates theircapabilities in a variety of domains. Highlights of the bookinclude * An in-depth look at open-source scripting in Peri andTcl/Tk * A comparison of Web- and Windows-based languages such asJavaScript, Visual Basic, VBA and VBScript * A survey of approaches to scripting with object models includingWeb clients and servers, Dynamic HTML and the DOM * A detailed look at scripting in the Microsoft Windowsenvironment, including ActiveX controls, scripting Word and Excelwith VBA, and scripting Windows itself with VBScript The World of Scripting Languages will be an ideal tutorial for Webdevelopers and application programmers wishing to broaden theirskill set, and also provides a toolkit of examples for studentstaking programming languages courses that focus on scripting.weiterlesen