28 JavaScript
JavaScript has experienced a surprising renaissance in recent years, and not just thanks to Ajax. In combination with PHP, it opens up exciting application possibilities.
A brief flashback: In the mid-1990s, websites started to become popular. However, server-side technologies were hardly widespread and often unaffordable at the time. Only Perl was also offered by cheaper hosts, but with some potential disadvantages: If you ever got tired of seeing the HTTP error 500 message, you know what we mean.
A certain form of dynamism was achieved at the time with JavaScript. JavaScript is a programming language that was invented by the browser market leader at the time, Netscape. The language was originally called LiveScript but was renamed ...
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