The Short Transitional Utility Language also known as Shorthand, was created and implemented by Sam Moses and Andrei Remenchuck as a simpler means of creating dynamic web applications. The language bindings are available for variety of web server platforms including Microsoft Windows, Linux, and Solaris_Operating_Environment on Sparc.

Scripting languages tend to work with a full control approach to documents (scripts) on which they operate. On input they want to be able to parse everything which isn t explicitly marked, and on the output side nothing comes through by default.

Shorthand, on the other hand, doesn t see itself as being the end of the line for a text stream. It practices hands off and passes the text through unless it sees special tags; then it goes to work, and outputs anything desired right there. This means that it can act as a pre-or post-processor without being invasive.

The language aims to balance ease of use, eloquent grammar, and the kind of robust functionality one would expect to see from a mainstream scripting language.

Shorthand offers a variety of features such as, native MySQL integration, ODBC, dynamic Server-side_include, among others.

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