C and C++ don’t really fit in the client-server paradigm, but within it they probably would be qualified as server-side languages . They are compiled languages, which make them hard to be used on client-side (compiler needs to know about the hardware that execute the compiled code).
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A . S . A language used to develop programs that are executed by the server . PHP and Java servlets are examples of server-side programming languages. See server-side script, PHP and servlet.
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