why to use scripting languages for web development

Becoz Those are (C,C++,VB) software development language that's why php,javascript..are using for web development. and one big thing that c or c++ get old languages than php or javascript that's why everyone want to go with current language with good techniques.

I use C# and VB.Net for Windows apps, Web apps, components and middleware. I abandoned scripting languages (ASP and PHP) after Visual Studio .Net came out because my productivity shot through the roof and testing times went through the floor.

Reason for the increasing popularity of scripting languages is improvements in scripting technology. Modern scripting languages such as Tcl and Perl are a far cry from early scripting languages such as JCL. For example, JCL didn't even provide basic iteration and early Unix shells didn't support procedures. Scripting technology is still relatively immature even today. For example, Visual Basic isn't really a scripting language; it was originally implemented as a simple system programming language, then modified to make it more suitable for scripting. Future scripting languages will be even better than those available today. Scripting technology has also benefited from the ever-increasing speed of computer hardware. It used to be that the only way to get acceptable performance in an application of any complexity was to use a system programming language. In some cases even system programming languages weren't efficient enough, so the applications had to be written in assembler. However, machines today are 100-500 times faster than the machines of 1980 and they continue to double in performance every 18 months. Today, many applications can be implemented in an interpreted language and still have excellent performance; for example, a Tcl script can manipulate collections with several thousand objects and still provide good interactive response. As computers get faster, scripting will become attractive for larger and larger applications.

The server side scripting languages like Javascript,PHP are very useful in web development.It has a great future also,as web development technologies are also grown in market.

Among the more common uses of scripting languages is the production of Common Gateway Interface, or CGI, scripts. CGI scripts let Web browsers make use of programs running on a Web server.

Because of their less-complicated nature, scripting languages are easier to learn and use than traditional compiled languages. Scripting languages tend to be extensible to handle tasks that weren’t initially conceived by their developers... Another important characteristic of common scripting languages is that they tend to be cross-platform, with versions often available for UNIX, Windows, Macintosh, and other operating systems...

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Because Scripting language allows control of one or more software applications..

scripting languages.... instead of developing a new language for each application also had obvious benefits, relieving the application developer of the need to code a language translator from scratch and allowing the user to apply skills learned elsewhere,Scripting languages are more user friendly and as well as easier to handle with

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To add interactivity in your web pages we use scripting languages.its free also this is also the advantage of scripting languages..