[thelist] What is the best programming language for the web?

[Judah McAuley]

Ah, I read that part of Johns email differently. I thought he meant that 
PHP is free, but only free in the sense that you don't have to pay for 
it upfront. The initial cost of any application server is, of course, 
only part of the cost of a project. If it takes you twice as long to a 
project in perl than it would take you to do it in CF, the upfront cost 
of purchasing CF might be worth it. Of course, it may also not be worth 
it. I just took his statement to mean that "free application server" 
doesn't mean "lower costing project". I may be wrong though.

As for the new hot language to come, I'm placing my bets on Visual Algog.

Cheers
Judah

ps .jeff has taken his bitch slapping over to the YUI Extent project so 
if you feel the craving for more js-related smackdowns, you should head 
over there.

Paul Bennett wrote:
> Apologies Judah,
> 
> I think I got confuddled with this initial statement from John: 
> "Anything given away (PHP, ASP) take the prize in initial capitalization 
> costs, although they'd get more expensive when also looking at total 
> ongoing costs." 
> 
> 'total development costs', 'total ongoing costs'
> Po-tay-toe, po-taa-toe...
> 
> Anyway, this is pointless - we all know that the new language mashup "Visual PHP-Fusion.NET" is the best programming language for the web, and when it gets on Rails we're all gonna be out of work.
> 
> Thanks for not getting Jeff involved, I'm still stinging from his reply to a newbie JavaScript post I made 4 years ago*
> 
> :)
> Paul
> 
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