Web Programming Languages

• Posted by sreejith s January 16, 2015 - Filed in Technology - #Web programming languages  - 1,561 views

  In 1989 a small group of people led by Tim Berners-Lee proposed a new protocol for the internet as well as a system of document access to it. It was named as World Wide Web, it was designed to allow scientists around the world to use the internet to exchange documents describing their scientific work. Some of the most common tools used in web programming are XHTML, XML. These are tools and are not languages. 

   

  The web programming languages are JavaScript, Java, Perl, PHP and Ruby. In any communication you do with help of internet, there are mainly two parts, they are client side and server side. So when we request any data, we act as clients who are requesting the data. Our request is accepted by a server, which returns the  information. XHTML and XML are client side languages. Perl, PHP, Ruby are server side languages. JavaScript and Java can be used for both client and server side programming. Another language is Python that can be used in web applications as a scripting language.

   

  • XHTML is not a programming language. It is used to describe general form of documents to be displayed by a browser.
  • Java is a modern language, widely used general purpose programming language that provides good functionality for web programming also.
  • JavaScript is a client-side scripting language whose primary use is to validate form data and create dynamic XHTML documents.
  • Perl syntax is similar to C programming. It is most commonly used for CGI programming.
  • PHP is a widely used server side scripting language. It is similar to JavaScript in terms of its syntax. 

   

  The most high paying web programming languages today are Ruby, Python, Java and JavaScript.