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Python
Python is a general-purpose high-level programming language. Its design philosophy emphasizes code readability. Python claims to "[combine] remarkable power with very clear syntax", and its standard library is large and comprehensive. Its use of indentation as block delimiters is unusual among...
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Ruby
Ruby is a dynamic, reflective, general purpose object-oriented programming language that combines syntax inspired by Perl with Smalltalk-like features. Ruby originated in Japan during the mid-1990s and was initially developed and designed by...
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- Interpreted language ,
- Dynamic programming language ,
- Object-oriented programming ,
- Reflective programming
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- 1995
JavaScript
JavaScript is an object-oriented scripting language used to enable programmatic access to objects within both the client application and other applications. It is primarily used in the form of client-side JavaScript, implemented as an integrated...
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- 1995
PHP
PHP, or PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor, is a widely used, general-purpose scripting language that was originally designed for web development, to produce dynamic web pages. It can be embedded into HTML and generally runs on a web server, which needs to...
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- 1995
ECMAScript
ECMAScript is a scripting language, standardized by Ecma International in the ECMA-262 specification and ISO/IEC 16262. The language is widely used on the web, especially in the form of its three best-known dialects, JavaScript, ActionScript, and...
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- Imperative programming ,
- Object-oriented programming ,
- Functional programming ,
- Prototype-based programming
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- 1997
D
The D programming language, also known simply as D, is an object-oriented, imperative, multi-paradigm system programming language by Walter Bright of Digital Mars. It originated as a re-engineering of C++, but even though it is predominantly...
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- 1999
Groovy
Groovy is an object-oriented programming language for the Java platform as an alternative to the Java programming language. It is a dynamic language with features similar to those of Python, Ruby, Perl, and Smalltalk. It can be used as a scripting...
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- 2003
Cel
Cel is an object-oriented prototype-based programming language based on Self and Smalltalk. As of 2002 it is no longer being supported or developed, but the code is freely available and functional. The language was started by Dru Nelson in 1998.
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- 1998
BeanShell
BeanShell is a Java scripting language, invented by Patrick Niemeyer. It runs in the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) and utilizes Java's own syntax, in addition to scripting commands and syntax. While BeanShell allows its users to define functions...
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- 2000
Stackless Python
Stackless Python, or Stackless, is a Python programming language interpreter, so named because it avoids depending on the C call stack for its own stack. The most prominent feature of Stackless is microthreads, which avoid much of the overhead...
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Ferite
Ferite is a small robust scripting language providing a straightforward application integration, the ability for the API to be extended very easily. The design goals of Ferite are to make a clean, cross-platform language which is easy to embed and...
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- 2000
Squirrel programming language
Squirrel is a high level imperative/OO programming language, designed to be a light-weight scripting language that fits in the size, memory bandwidth, and real-time requirements of applications like video games. MirthKit, a simple toolkit for making...
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- Functional programming ,
- Object-oriented programming ,
- Imperative programming ,
- Multi-paradigm programming language
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- 2003
Dao Language
Dao is an object-oriented scripting language with dynamically typed variables supporting complex data structures. It has text processing abilities, such as regular expression matching. It provides many built-in numerical datatypes such as complex...
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- 2006
MiniD
The MiniD programming language is a small, lightweight, extension language in the vein of Lua or Squirrel, but designed to be used mainly with the D programming language. It supports both object-oriented and imperative programming paradigms, as well...
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- 2006
Judoscript
Judoscript is one of several general purpose programming languages designed primarily for scripting on the Java platform. Its originator and primary developer is software engineer James Jianbo Huang.
Judoscript was one of the first general purpose...
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- Nov 2001
Cobra
Cobra is an object-oriented programming language produced by Cobra Language LLC. Cobra is designed by Chuck Esterbrook, and runs on the Microsoft .NET and Mono frameworks. It is strongly influenced by Python, C#, Eiffel, Objective-C and other...
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- 2006
Falcon
Falcon is an open source, multi-paradigm programming language. Design and implementation is led by Giancarlo Niccolai, a native of Bologna, Italy and Information Technology graduate from Pistoia.
Falcon translates computer source code to virtual...
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- Functional programming ,
- Procedural programming ,
- Prototype-based programming ,
- Multi-paradigm programming language
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- 2003
