5 non common web based programming languages

TRAC


      "Pasternacki, Maciej Paweł(21,22), is Polish CS student, on fourth year of five-year Masters program at University of Gdansk(23). For last four years works half-time as a programmer and technical writer. Earlier he was administrating Linux systems for about a year. Since 2005 works for Polish-Japanese company Sentivision(24). Up to mid-2007 his job was developing Common Lisp programs. These were closed, proprietary programs, details of which cannot be shared, but he was cooperating with authors of Open Source implementations and libraries his company was using."


source: http://trac.common-lisp.net/cl-openid/wiki/OriginalProposal

AJAX
     (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) "Though technically not a programming language, AJAX uses XHTML or HTML, JavaScript and XML to create interactive Web applications."


source: http://www.eweek.com/c/a/IT-Management/10-Programming-Languages-You-Should-Learn-Right-Now/


PERL


         "Perl is an open-source, cross-platform, server-side interpretive programming language used extensively to process text through CGI programs.Perls power in processing of piles of text has made it very popular and widely used to write Web server programs for a range of tasks. "Learning some form of scripting language, such as Perl or PHP is critical if you are doing Web apps," said Duquaine."


source: http://www.eweek.com/c/a/IT-Management/10-Programming-Languages-You-Should-Learn-Right-Now/

RUBY and RUBY ON RAILS


     " Ruby is a dynamic, object-oriented, open-source programming language; Ruby on Rails is an open-source Web application framework written in Ruby that closely follows the MVC (Model-View-Controller) architecture.With a focus on simplicity, productivity and letting the computers do the work, in a few years, its usage has spread quickly. As a bonus, many find it easy to learn."


source: http://www.eweek.com/c/a/IT-Management/10-Programming-Languages-You-Should-Learn-Right-Now/

PYTHON


     "An interpreted, dynamically object-oriented, open-source programming language that utilizes automatic memory management. Designed to be a highly readable, minimalist language, many say it has a sense of humor (spam and eggs, rather than foo and bar), Python is used extensively by Google as well as in academia because of its syntactic simplicity."


source: http://www.eweek.com/c/a/IT-Management/10-Programming-Languages-You-Should-Learn-Right-Now/