Originally developed by Dennis M. Ritchie and Brian W. Kernighan at Bell Labs for the UNIX system as language to
develop applications and maintain the operating system. The language is small in memory footprint, fast and as close to
assembly as you can get without using assembly to accomplish the tasks at hand. The continued and grow beyond the UNIX
system and was later taken up by ANSI committee and several standards were developed as a result of the committee's work.
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Bjarne Stroustrup developed the language as a subset of the C Programming language
to be easier to use without having to enforce a particular style or thinking to it. Since the language was close
to the UNIX operating system, it could be used on the system without much change in portability. The Object Oriented
aspect of the language was influenced by the language Simula67 and incorporated the ideas from it. The name C++ comes
from the C increment operator ++, which adds 1 to the value of a variable. The name C++ suggests a version that
incrementally changed.
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Developed by Ramus Lerdorf as the Personal Home Page Tools and used for Web publishing macros, the language
was rewritten to include a package called the Form Intepreter. Three years later, a team of developers were working on
the language to extend it farther and its used grew. With the release of PHP3, more refinements were added, most notably
by Zeev Suraski and Andi Gutmans who wrote a new parser, syntax and other refinements to improve the usably of the language.
The language is used most extensibly with Apache Server and mySQL database as it lends itself to easy integregation with mySQL
database. The resulting web page is from one of these setups always has the .php extension on it.
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Javascript was originally developed by Brendan Eich of Netscape under the name Mocha. Later, the name was changed to LiveScript
then changed again to Javascript. At the time, Sun was releasing Java and wanted Netscape to include the Java runtime with the
Netscape browser. Javascript is much like the C syntax and uses some of the naming conventions of Java but the two languages
are unrelated. Javascript is considered a functional programming language like Scheme because it uses closures and high-order
functions. In recent years, Javascript has been combined with XML to create another Web based language called Ajax.
This is the use of Javascript, XML, XSLT, XHTML and CSS. The Javascript on the client side communicates with a Java
applet on the server side in order use the data.
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