The following are some of the most popular or widely used mainstream Programming language methodologies currently used for web development and business applications.

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Access Programming® - Developed by Microsoft® Access is "For experienced database programmers and first-time database users alike, Microsoft Access version 2002 delivers powerful tools for managing and analyzing data. With XML support, developers can create sophisticated enterprise-wide database solutions that integrate easily with the Web. New users will find comprehensive tools that make building databases more intuitive. New features like Microsoft PivotTable® and Microsoft PivotChart® greatly improve data analysis capabilities. Like the rest of Office XP, Access 2002 helps you work smarter".

ASP Programming -  "Active Server Pages is an open, compile-free application environment in which you can combine HTML, scripts, and reusable ActiveX server components to create dynamic and powerful Web-based business solutions. Active Server Pages enables server-side scripting for IIS with native support for both VBScript and Jscript." (ASP description by Microsoft®)

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C++ Programming - "Released in 1985, C++ is an object-oriented programming language created by Bjarne Stroustrup. C++ maintains almost all aspects of the C language, while simplifying memory management and adding several features - including a new data type known as a class  - to allow object-oriented programming. C++ maintains the features of C which allowed for low-level memory access but also gives the programmer new tools which simplify memory management."

CGI Programming - "The Common Gateway Interface, or CGI, is a standard for external gateway programs to interface with information servers such as HTTP servers. A plain HTML document that the Web daemon retrieves is static, which means it exists in a constant state: a text file that doesn't change. A CGI program, on the other hand, is executed in real-time, so that it can output dynamic information."

CSS Programming - "Web style sheets have been around for a number of years, but their power and importance went largely unnoticed since few implementations existed. Web authors, anxious to add creativity to their pages by influencing the presentation, began to use Netscape's proprietary extensions rather than the more powerful style sheets. This was quite natural, since Netscape's proprietary extensions could be seen by a significant portion of Web users, while few would see style sheet enhancements."

DHTML Programming - "Dynamic HTML refers to technologies that allow documents to be changed after their initial display, without server access, through user interaction and client-side scripting. Page elements can be displayed selectively, then modified, moved or replaced. This ability to move and replace objects allows for the animation of text and graphics. In turn, selective display and replacement can be used for database record retrieval. Personal home pages as well as complex business applications can make use of the technology. Pages look and feel like native operating system applications, and all without straining bandwidth and server links. Currently, there are two versions of DHTML, Netscape's and Microsoft's. Due to this split, some elements that work with Netscape Navigator may not work with Microsoft Internet Explorer and vice versa."

HTML Programming - "In strictly formal terms, HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is not in fact a markup language, but a specific Document Type Definition (DTD) for the Standard General Markup Language (SGML), where SGML is a standard for describing markup languages, and a DTD is a specific markup language written using SGML. Less formally it is the stuff that makes the World Wide Web (WWW), the hypertext information system mainly developed by Tim Berners-Lee [1] and a team at CERN, the European Particle Physics Lab in Geneva, originally to meet the needs of the high energy physics community there and worldwide. Development began in 1989, and the WWW was installed at CERN in 1991."

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Javascript Programming - "Javascript is an easy-to-use programming language that can be embedded in the header of your web pages. It can enhance the dynamics and interactive features of your page by allowing you to perform calculations, check forms, write interactive games, add special effects, customize graphics selections, create security passwords and more. One of the best things about JavaScript is that you can do a great deal with very little programming. You don't need a fancy computer, you don't need any software other than a word processor and a Web browser, and you don't need access to a Web server; you can do all your work right on your own computer."

Perl Programming - "Perl is the brainchild of Larry Wall. He continues to develop and maintain the language, which, through the help of the net. community, is available on virtually every computer platform, from Apple Macintosh to VMS. Perl is an acronym for "Practical Extraction and Report Language", although you'll sometimes hear it referred to as the "Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister." It started out as a scripting language to supplement rn, the ubiquitous USENET reader, which Wall also wrote. (Most people could only dream of writing a program that is installed on every UNIX box on the planet - Larry has two.) It is an interpreted language that is optimized for string manipulation, I/O, and system tasks. It has built-ins for almost everything that's in section 2 of the UNIX manuals, which makes it very popular with system administrators. It incorporates syntax elements from the Bourne shell, csh, awk, sed, grep, and C.

PHP Programming - "Up until recently, scripting on the internet was something which very few people even attempted, let alone mastered. Recently though, more and more people have been building their own websites and scripting languages have become more important. Because of this, scripting languages are becoming easier to learn and PHP is one of the easiest and most powerful yet. PHP stands for Hypertext Preprocessor and is a server-side language. This means that the script is run on your web server, not on the user's browser, so you do not need to worry about compatibility issues. PHP is relatively new (compared to languages such as Perl (CGI) and Java) but is quickly becoming one of the most popular scripting languages on the internet."

Visual Basic Programming - "VISUAL BASIC is a high level programming language evolved from the earlier DOS version called BASIC. BASIC means Beginners' All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. It is a fairly easy programming language to learn. The codes look a bit like English Language. Different software companies produced different version of BASIC, such as Microsoft QBASIC, QUICKBASIC, GWBASIC ,IBM BASICA and so on.

XML Programming - "What is XML? 1.XML stands for EXtensible Markup Language, 2.XML is a markup language much like HTML, 3. XML was designed to describe data, 4. XML tags are not predefined in XML. You must define your own tags, 5. XML uses a Document Type Definition (DTD) or an XML Schema to describe the data, 6. XML with a DTD or XML Schema is designed to be self-descriptive."

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