note 107172 deleted from faq.languages by danbrown

Note Submitter: nested dot bit at gmail dot com ---- @WebConsultant JSP isn't a language. Java isn't strictly compiled. It needs a runtime system. Java is faster, no doubt. But there's a reason many of the top 100 Web apps use a lot PHP * Facebook * Wikipedia * Yahoo! PHP is an extremely good language for beginners. Its supereasy to write a quick webapp with PHP. Its quick and rich. Lets not get into language wars. But its quite, reasonable to think that so many people using PHP in so many successful apps weren't dumb when they made choice and they probably had a very sound reason.