"Java is Everywhere!"
It certainly seems so when you read the computer magazines lately. Sun Microsystems (the developers of Java) would like to see Java in pagers, cellular phones, networks computers, PDA's, remote controls, and on and on. Java is just one tool we use to liven up Web Pages. The following descriptions are of commonly used terms.
Java
Java is a class-based programming language for embedding applications called applets. These programs can be run with a Java-capable browser.
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JavaScript
This is a simple programming language (not to be confused with Java). These programs are be embedded into HTML programming.
PERL (practical extraction and report language)
This is an UNIX based programming language used to create more dynamic Web pages.
CGI (common gateway interface)
CGI is used by Web servers to provide scripts or programs with information about requests when forms are filled out on Web pages. CGI is not a programming language but can use many languages.