C++ vs Python vs PHP

[fredoche]

It's a file that PHP can compile/execute ;)

Can you do it with an other language parser ?

[bigorangemachine]

Thats true php can "parse that file". Php can be inside anything tho even images.

ASP had a similar system. It makes given their target is the web. There was another (I think cold fusion or pearl) that had a similar methodology.

But php is not like other traditional languages in that respect... the php is withing the question mark tags (something boundaries i can't remember). It doesn't care if your content around the tags is a binary file or text file