Concepts Of Programming Languages
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Chronological sequence of developments:
Scripting languages gained more popularity with the explosion of World Wide Web (WWW) during 1990’s. Scripting languages are mainly used for developing web pages which are interpreted by the web browsers.
- JavaScript appeared in 1994, developed by Netscape replaced the traditional static arrays.
- All the character strings and arrays were of having dynamic lengths.
- So, array indices are not checked for validity.
- In 1995, PHP included the dynamic array properties of arrays from JSP and hashes from Perl.
- Hashes are advanced form of array.
- In an array, each element can be accessed by the index, but sometimes this becomes extremely difficult as the index itself is not known...
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