In this survey of more than 400 developers, conducted in the winter of 2006, respondents ranked twelve different scripting languages, including Ruby, ASP.NET AJAX, Flex, Python, Cold Fusion, PHP, Action Script, XMAL, Javascript, Perl, VB Script, and Tcl.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Attribute Ranking
• Overall Ranking
• Ease of Use
• Maintainability and Readability
• Rapid Development
• Memory Management
• Cross-platform compatibility
• Security
• Availability of Frameworks and Libraries
• Community
• Performance
• Availability of Tools
• Quality of Tools
• Ability to Develop Web Services/ SOA
• Client Side Scripting

Individual Rankings

• ActionScript
• Atlas
• Cold Fusion Markup Language
• Flex
• JavaScript
• Perl
• PHP
• Python
• Ruby
• Tcl
• VB Script
• XAML