I am relatively new to web development, but I have been a C/C++ programmer now for about 9 years... So far, I really love PHP... It just makes web development so much more convenient... But I sometimes wonder why so much server side work is done with intrpreted scripting languages... Why haven't languages been created that when "compiled" result in C code, which could then itself be compiled and run natively? It should be possible to create a "reintrepreter" capable of translating code written in a language like PHP into C code, which could then be compiled and executed natively... (IE, Faster)... If it was desired, it could even copy the syntax of the PHP language exactly... You would get the rapid development of PHP combined with the execution speed of C... Their must be a good reason this has never been done (or has it?). -- td