介绍跨平台动态开源语言未来方向的好文章

Dynamic Languages-ready for the next challenges, by design 
(作者:Dr. David Ascher  ActiveState的CTO  http://www.activestate.com/)

部分内容:

动态开源语言的定义:
dynamic languages are defined as high-level, dynamically typed, and open source, developed by a grassroots community rather than a corporation or consortium.
有一句话定义了动态开源语言的定义:高级语言与开放源代码,由一个民间的社区而非一家公司或国际财团开发的。

部分介绍PHP的现状和未来:

PHP, unlike Perl and Python which were very broad in scope, focused from its inception on a single task: building dynamic websites. It's safe to say that it has succeeded, with the latest Netcraft surveys finding PHP installed on over 16 million domains. PHP combines a syntax that is easy for even novice web designers to learn, with a rich library of modules that capitalize on the fact that most websites need to do similar things (talk to databases, cache images, process forms, etc.). PHP is now considered the most serious competition to the web strategies of both Microsoft (with ASP.NET) and Sun (with J2EE).

文章中还区分了动态开源语言的中立与C#,JAVA,C++等语言的之间定义的区别.大量了提到了民间.开源.跨平台,免费和中立等词.最后文章里也提到在何种情况下开发使用何种语言的选择.

象Perl,php,JavaScript/JScript/ECMAScript,（flash的action script2.0就是尊循EM4script标准的）XML-Xslt都是Open Source的产物.长时间的大量技术人员免费参与开源开发设计和转变积累，最底层的 library 已经形成．都开始向OOP设计转变.

Ps:
这篇文章就是介绍动态开源开发语言的起源和未来的发展，
因此学习一门时兴的商业平台开发语言和一门开源的跨平台民间语言在适应未来开发上都是需要的.