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PHP has grown huge and now challenges Perl as the new defacto cgi scripting language.
First of all, PHP isn't usually configured as a CGI program (it can be, but isn't usually). It is usually set up as a Web server scripting system.
I'd say Python and Ruby are probably giving Perl a beating behind the CGI playground.
As one of my engineers so succinctly put it: "Perl is a write-only language."
If you want to talk about server-side active scripting systems, then I believe that PHP has knocked all others into a cocked hat.
In terms of functionality and server support, it is really only matched by full-scale systems like Java, ASP and ColdFusion.
In terms of sheer number of sites based on PHP versus ANY other active server technology, I would not be surprised if PHP blew every single other active system clean out of the water.
Does anyone have good, empirical numbers? The above statement was manufactured from whole cloth, and mostly presented as a strawman to kick off some discussion.
Am I the only one to think the forum blurb is a bit dated?
Well, if you are going to change it, I believe Timotheos has the best one [webmasterworld.com]:
PHP: It puts the meatballs into your spaghetti code.
When I first read that a couple months ago just searching around WW, I really laughed out loud. ;)
I'm happy to change it if we can agree on something appropriate.
but it would have to be serious, sorry :)
PHP is presently the most popular scripting language in use on the Internet
PHP is presently the most popular scripting language in use on the Internet
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