I'm a little bothered by all the sniping between the various scripting language camps: Lisp bashes Python, Perl bashes PHP, everyone bashes Java.
But anyone can walk up, hand $10 to a hosting company, and start serving PHP + MySQL applications. If you want to run Perl, Python, Ruby or anything else, you need to use CGI or a dedicated and more expensive server.
Not to knock those other languages (and I'd like to do some projects in Ruby or Python,) but until Mod_(Perl|Python|Ruby) becomes as common as PHP in hosting packages, people are going to build their applications using PHP.
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Hmm, all my webhosts offered cgi execution when they offered php/mysql as well, so that's not a valid point against Perl. But it's true, Ruby and Python are just not at all common. I seriously prefer Perl, you can use TCL/TK and build an alternative interface rather easy whereas PHP is a damn good tool for any thing http-related (well, perl excels at this too, but it just isn't as "hip and fresh").
Posted by: Stephan at 24.09.04 11:18