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Programming Languages For Further Study

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Client-based Languages
ECMAScript/JavaScript   Standard Free Web Browser Mac, Windows, Linux N/A  
VBScript   Microsoft Free        
Page-based Languages
ASP (Active Server Pages)   Microsoft Free w/ Windows Windows (IIS) Solaris (requires ChiliSoft) Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle  
PHP   Open Source (Zend) Free Unix/Linux Windows MySQL, Postgres www.php.org
JSP
Server-based Languages
Perl Automating system administration, processing interactive Web sites, & file & text manipulation Open Source Free Unix/Linux, Mac OS X Windows Any SQL-based: Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, Postgres, etc. www.perl.com & www.activestate.com
Python Text manipulation, software glue Open Source Free Unix/Linux Windows, Mac MySQL, Postgres www.python.org
Tcl Issue commands to interactive programs Open Source Free Unix/Linux Windows, Mac OS X    
Java Anything Sun Free Unix, Windows, Mac ---   www.javasoft.com
Middleware
ColdFusion Web applications Macromedia $1295, $4995 Unix/Linux, Windows --- Any SQL-based www.macromedia.com