The World of Scripting Languages

Scripting languages have taken over from object-oriented languages as flavour of the decade, mainly because of the power and flexibility they provide (even for non-expert programmers) for developing graphical user interfaces. Scripting languages are the basis of technologies on the World Wide Web, and office software suites such as Microsoft Office also rely heavily on them. This is the first book to survey a variety of the most important scripting languages, illustrating their use in a wide variety of application domains.

Suitable for Computer Science students taking courses on Scripting Languages, or Programming Language survey courses that emphasise Scripting languages. In addition, programmers and software engineers wishing to broaden their experience of modern programming languages, and techniques for user interface design.

Scriptsprachen sind vergleichsweise einfach zu erlernen, dabei flexibel und leistungsstark. Endlich gibt es nun ein Buch, das verschiedene Scriptsprachen hinsichtlich ihres Umfangs und ihrer Anwendungen einander gegenüberstellt! Behandelt werden Perl V, TCL, Word Basic, Java Script, Visual Basic und VB Script. Ständige Aktualität gewährleistet einen zugehörige Website. (04/00) THE BIG PICTURE.

Introduction to Scripts and Scripting.

LANGUAGES.

Getting the Job Done in Perl.

Advanced Perl.

Tcl.

Advanced Tcl.

Tk.

Visual Basic and VBA.

Advanced Visual Basic.

SCRIPTING WEB CLIENTS AND SERVERS.

JavaScript.

VBScript.

Scripting Web Clients and Servers.

Dynamic HTML and the DOM.

THE MICROSOFT SCRIPTING MODEL.

Scripting Microsoft Office.

The Microsoft Scripting Runtime Library.

The Windows Script Host and the Script Control.

AND FINALLY.

Loose Ends.

Epilogue.

Appendix.

Indexes. "…it makes a decent introduction to the concept of scripting languages…" (Functional Programming, July 2003)

David Barron is the author of The World of Scripting Languages, published by Wiley. Programming Languages/Web Programming The World of Scripting Languages David Barron The explosive growth of Internet applications has seen a corresponding growth in the use and development of scripting languages. Their power and flexibility enables even nonexpert programmers to prototype graphical user interfaces more rapidly, end to develop sophisticated Web-based applications. This book provides an authoritative survey of the most important scripting languages and illustrates their capabilities in a variety of domains. Highlights of the book include
* An in-depth look at open-source scripting in Peri and Tcl/Tk
* A comparison of Web- and Windows-based languages such as JavaScript, Visual Basic, VBA and VBScript
* A survey of approaches to scripting with object models including Web clients and servers, Dynamic HTML and the DOM
* A detailed look at scripting in the Microsoft Windows environment, including ActiveX controls, scripting Word and Excel with VBA, and scripting Windows itself with VBScript
The World of Scripting Languages will be an ideal tutorial for Web developers and application programmers wishing to broaden their skill set, and also provides a toolkit of examples for students taking programming languages courses that focus on scripting.