Programmers' Tools - script languages

PHP Pascal

Tue, 11 Sep 2007 04:40:35 -0700

Version:
1.0

Description:

PHP Pacsal is a pascal compiler, where the bytecode interpeter is written in PHP. The compiler core is written in itself (in PHP Pascal).

PHP5

Sat, 1 Sep 2007 12:18:16 -0700

Version:
5.2.4

Description:

PHP (recursive acronym for "PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor") is a widely-used Open Source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML.

What distinguishes PHP from something like client-side JavaScript is that the code is executed on the server. If you were to have a script similar to the above on your server, the client would receive the results of running that script, with no way of determining what the underlying code may be. You can even configure your web server to process all your HTML files with PHP, and then there's really no way that users can tell what you have up your sleeve.

PHP can be used on all major operating systems, including Linux, many Unix variants (including HP-UX, Solaris and OpenBSD), Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, RISC OS, and probably others. PHP has also support for most of the web servers today. This includes Apache, Microsoft Internet Information Server, Personal Web Server, Netscape and iPlanet servers, Oreilly Website Pro server, Caudium, Xitami, OmniHTTPd, and many others. For the majority of the servers PHP has a module, for the others supporting the CGI standard, PHP can work as a CGI processor.

PHP4

Fri, 4 May 2007 00:07:54 -0700

Version:
4.4.7

Description:

Ruby on Rails

Tue, 20 Mar 2007 05:55:23 -0700

Version:
1.2.3

Description:

Rails is a full-stack framework for developing database-backed web applications according to the Model-View-Control pattern. From the Ajax in the view, to the request and response in the controller, to the domain model wrapping the database, Rails gives you a pure-Ruby development environment. To go live, all you need to add is a database and a web server.

Ruby

Mon, 26 Feb 2007 00:56:52 -0800

Version:
1.8.6

Description:

Ruby is the interpreted scripting language for quick and easy object-oriented programming. It has many features to process text files and to do system management tasks (as in Perl). It is simple, straight-forward, extensible, and portable.

RadRails

Mon, 18 Sep 2006 11:34:39 -0700

Version:
0.7.1

Description:

RadRails is an integrated development environment for the Ruby on Rails framework. The goal of this project is to provide Rails developers with everything they need to develop, manage, test and deploy their applications. Features include source control, debugging, WEBrick servers, generator wizards, syntax highlighting, data tools and much much more.

The RadRails IDE is built on the Eclipse RCP, and includes the Subclipse plug-in and the RDT plug-ins. The RadRails tools are also available as Eclipse plug-ins.

RoRED

Sun, 23 Jul 2006 04:31:40 -0700

Version:
0.9.2.2

Description:

Features:

Model-Views-Controller tab grouping for editors
Code navigation (ctrl+click) into methods
Easy switch back and forward between editors
Bookmark, Hyperbookmarks, Macro recording and playback

JRuby

Sun, 9 Jul 2006 11:43:16 -0700

Version:
0.9.0

Description:

A 1.8.2 compatible Ruby interpreter written in 100% pure Java
Most builtin Ruby classes provided
Support for interacting with and defining java classes from within ruby

Perl

Tue, 7 Feb 2006 00:32:58 -0800

Version:
5.8.8

Description:

Perl is a general-purpose programming language originally developed for text manipulation and now used for a wide range of tasks including system administration, web development, network programming, GUI development, and more.

The language is intended to be practical (easy to use, efficient, complete) rather than beautiful (tiny, elegant, minimal). Its major features are that it's easy to use, supports both procedural and object-oriented (OO) programming, has powerful built-in support for text processing, and has one of the world's most impressive collections of third-party modules.

Zamplized Ruby User's Guide

Mon, 6 Feb 2006 15:11:53 -0800

Version:
2.6

Description:

An enhanced and updated edition of the Ruby Users Guide is now available on the Zamples site. Building on the work of Yukihiro Matsumoto, GOTO Kentaro, Julian Fondren, Mark Slagell and Dave Thomas, this new edtion features live online code examples embedded into the documentation and more examples than the previous edition. All of the code examples work in a web browser without requiring the user to install any software. The Zamplized Ruby Users Guide is freely available for browsing at http://zamples.com/rubyUG/ and can be downloaded in its entirety at no charge according to the terms of the LGPL.

For the first time, the Zamplized Ruby Users Guide takes advantage of a new Zamples capability, a single-step tracing facility. With the trace, the result of evaluating each line of the program can be displayed. Currently Zamples only supports the Ruby language with this facility.