Scripting languages were to the 200x's what visual 4GL's were to the 1990's, i.e. a whole bunch of them came and went, and only a few gained mass adoption, perh

Scripting languages were to the 200x's what visual 4GL's were to the 1990's, i.e. a whole bunch of them came and went, and only a few gained mass adoption, perhaps 4GL's Visual Basic and Delphi, and scripting languages Javascript and Python. The rest are dead, or slowly dying.