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Client side

Client-side scripting options are many and varied. Device capability and developer skill set dictate selection and use. Some of the more common options are the following:

JavaScript client-side scripting language
REXX, which is an IBM mainframes scripting language
Tool Command Language (TCL), which processes strings and passes commands to interactive programs
Active Server Pages (ASP) by Microsoft, which uses scripted pages on the web server and acts as an interpreted interface between the backend application and browser
Java Server Pages (JSP) from by Sun Microsystems, which uses scripted pages that are compiled to run on the server as small programs called servlets
PHP, an open source server scripting language embedded into ...

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