Tuesday, April 8, 2008

Acronyms, and other IT terms related to class for April the 7th.

1. - PHP - ( Hypertext Processor ) is a computer scripting language used for producing dynamic web pages. The PHP License and The Free Software Foundation considers it to be free software. It is also the most popular Apache module among computers using Apache as a web server. The recent version is 5.2.0.

2. - Apache Http Server - a web server that plays a key role in the growth of the WWW. It was the first viable alternative to what is now known as the Sun Java System Web Server and has since evolved to rival with Unix as well.

3.- PERL - a general purpose programming language originally created for text manipulation. But...now it is used for System Administration, Web Development, Network Programming, and GUI development.

4. - CGI.pm module - a large and widely used Perl module for programming Common Gateway Interface(CGI) web applications. It is written and maintained by Lincoln D. Stein.

5.- ASP - (Active Server Pages) - Microsoft's first server-side script engine for dynamically generated web pages. It is included as a free compound of Window's Server 2000 and up.

6.- VBscript - (Visual Basic Scripting Edition) - an active Scripting language developed by Microsoft. It is installed as default in every Desktop release of Windows Operating Systems since WIN 98. Must be executed in a host environment.

7.- Byte Code - a term used to denote forms of instruction sets designed for efficient execution by a Software interpreter and is also suitable for further compilation into machine code. The name stems from the Java Instruction Set.

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