Re: PHP vs JAVA

On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 10:00 AM, Tedd Sperling <tedd@sperling.com> wrote: > Hi guys: > > A teacher at my college made the statement that JAVA for Web Development is more popular than > PHP. > > Where can I go to prove this right or wrong -- and/or -- what references do any of you have to > support your answer? (sounds like a teacher, huh?) > > Here are my two references: > > http://w3techs.com/technologies/details/pl-php/all/all > > > http://w3techs.com/technologies/history_overview/programming_language/ms/y > > But I do not know how accurate they are. > > What say you? While I couldn't find anything comparable - from the same source and window of time - for Java trends on the web, there was an article released by Netcraft in January of this year that shows PHPs continued growth[1]. It may, at the least, provide a basis for comparison should you or your adversary be so inclined to dig deeper. ^1: http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2013/01/31/php-just-grows-grows.html -- </Daniel P. Brown> Network Infrastructure Manager http://www.php.net/