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Re:What are the most polarizing programming languages? by craigmcnamara on Wednesday November 04, 2015 @04:41PM (#10509987)
Can vs Should. While PHP is turing complete, there are much better toolkits for the jobs you described.
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Re:What are the most polarizing programming languages? by mschuster91 on Wednesday November 04, 2015 @04:52PM (#10510061)
Sure, but PHP abstracts a load of stuff when you're doing cross-platform stuff - and what's more important, it allows you to keep one language (thus reusing codebase) when you're also doing stuff with web interfaces.

Neither Java, Ruby, Python nor anything else are as simple to setup and resource-friendly to run as a PHP-FCGI+nginx setup.

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