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

[Shawn K. Quinn]

On Thu, 2007-05-24 at 09:44 +0100, Sales @ Lycosa wrote:
> I would like to open up a discussion on which programming language is
> 'best'
> for web programming.
> 
> I have been using php for some years now, but I was recently told that
> C
> could run up to 170 times faster. Raw speed is not necessarily an
> issue, but
> it made me think about using other programming languages.

It all depends on what language(s) you know, and what you need to do. I
know Perl, Python, Forth, C, and BASIC (among others) to varying
degrees.

In summary, if you know just PHP, that's what you should be using. If
it's not enough to get a given job done, you'll find out soon enough.
PHP is probably among one of the most portable; there are some such as
ASP and Cold Fusion that are decisively less so (the former being a
Microsoft product, the latter being what an Adobe product by way of
Allaire and Macromedia, both of which are Windows-centric and place you
at the mercy of proprietary software vendors for licensing).

-- 
Shawn K. Quinn <skquinn at speakeasy.net>