Posted by Tim Van Wassenhove on 05/17/06 19:16

On 2006-05-17, munna <hassaan84s@gmail.com> wrote:
> Why scripting languages are dynamically and weakly typed? and why none
> of the scripting languages is compiler based?

In my experience there is no good definition for 'scripting language'
and thus is making the distinction between 'programming language' and
'scripting language' useless.

> why cant a scripting language be use like java or c++ where we can
> catch type errors e.g. (string being assigned to an integer),
> parameter passing at compiled time.

Actually there are programming languages (which you would name
'scripting languages) that support this.

Even PHP5 supports this feature (be it limited to custom classes though...)


> what is the significance of multiple dollar sign ($$...$var) in php?

rtfm (section on variable variables)

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Met vriendelijke groeten,
Tim Van Wassenhove <http://timvw.madoka.be>

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