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Re:I haven’t given up on PHP — yet by ssharp on Monday December 15, 2008 @03:25PM (#398759)
You're forgetting the popularity of cheap shared hosting plans. PHP is offered on many hosting plans for $10 or less dollars a month and "just works" in that you upload a PHP file and it works with zero extra configuration. Most cheap hosts don't offer this low barrier to entry with Python, ASP, ASP.NET, RoR, etc.
Re:I haven’t given up on PHP — yet by trezor on Monday December 15, 2008 @03:28PM (#398765)
I'm fully aware of this, but that can hardly be accounted for as a feature of the language itself, which was what I was asking about.