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internetnews.com: ActiveState’s Dynamic Release

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SMK
Sean Michael Kerner
Jul 27, 2004

“For many developers, there’s usually more than one dynamic
language that they use to do their jobs. It’s also ActiveState’s
job with its latest IDE release for professional developers using
open source dynamic languages, Komodo 3.0.

“Dynamic languages such as Perl, PHP, Python, Tcl and XSLT are
all part of the Komodo IDE, which strives to make developers lives
easier by offering a common interface and toolset to develop in
multiple languages.

“‘We think that dynamic languages are a crucial part of IT
infrastructure and are often neglected,’ David Ascher, chief
technologist at ActiveState told internetnews.com. ‘There’s lots of
talk about the Microsoft platform and lot’s about the Java
platform. But a lot of the real work that occurs in IT shops tends
to involve more than one language strategy, and those dynamic
languages play a huge part in that…'”

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