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Well, what is it (out of the choices I'm providing)?

Forgive my ignorance; is JSP JavaScript?

No, Javascript is (typically) client-side. JSP=JavaServer Pages (=eww....)

It's kind of like Java as a server-side language....I personally don't like it much. Toungue

I can't really vote because I kind of am having a tie between a few. I know why Nikky likes Perl, but just wondering - why is PHP your favorite server-side language? Not that it's a bad thing, I'm just wondering why. There are a few reasons why I like PHP, and I want to compare them with yours.

For me, I'm eliminating ColdFusion and JSP. I don't know that much about them, but from the little bit I've seen about them, I don't like them much.

Then there is PHP, Perl, and ASP.NET. Here are just some of the goods and bads of these languages (in my opinion)....

PHP:
Good: Easy to learn, very user-friendly
Bad: Although powerful enough for most cases, not always powerful enough

Perl:
Good: Powerful
Bad: Not as "user-friendly", code can become hard to read, not as good for beginners

ASP.NET:
Good: Really easy, Visual Studio ( Toungue

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Bad: Not very Unix-friendly, slow, not always very efficient, some stuff can cost money

I kind of like PHP and Perl a bit more than ASP.NET, but that's just me.

I suppose I can't really vote, because I lack a general knowledge about server-side languages.

I invoke my right to resurrect dead threads i missed in the past. Perl. Perl, perl perl. Actually though, i really think you're missing the broader spectrum of modern languages that will power the web in the future. PHP is outdated, and it is slowly being phased out for more extensible and portable languages like Ruby and Python. That being said, Perl rocks this world, and the forthcoming Perl 6 is very exciting.

Well, I wouldn't say that PHP is being phased out... PHP is enough for me; no need for fancy (aka computationally intensive) languages like Ruby. then again, Perl 6 does seem to be promising.

most large-scale web applications are moving away from php based systems to modern technologies like ruby on rails. the way the web works is changing, and php is not as well suited for modern applications. that is not to say that five years from now php will be gone, but its time as THE language is passing.

I do not much like Ruby on Rails because it seems to spoon-feed you with its JavaScript libraries, making it almost too easy to write code. I like simply doing it by hand.

I don't know much about Ruby on Rails, but from the little I've read/heard about it, it just doesn't seem like something that would appeal to me. I like Perl and PHP (as a matter of fact, my website, http://bfr.tifreakware.net, uses both).

Yeah. I don't like the wya it automates everything. for example:

Code:

make html

make title Cool things

display a table called b:

--make button update

--make default content Click to update

--display heading Database Update

--style with blue

end table

make when clickon b update from database:

--select users where 10<userid<20 and order by the userid and show username, userid, and post count

--make the font Verdana and the size medium

end clickon

output html

Well, that kind of "ease of use" is a bit far off, but it's really annoying to see this kind of code... Big Grin

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