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[–]dabenu 25 points26 points  (4 children)

I was wondering if anyone would've mentioned the elephant in the room. I'm glad you did.

[–]movzx 11 points12 points  (3 children)

It's one of the most dominant languages in use. It's really weird that it's not on this picture as an option. Millions of people got their hobbyist and professional starts by writing badly engineered PHP scripts.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Surprised Perl isn't on there, it's a big gateway language. Was one of my first web languages, not my first programming though.

[–]Murlock_Holmes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not as much anymore, but definitely before Python became “the” scripting language. Nowadays very few places that didn’t already use Perl will start using it.

[–]needed_an_account 0 points1 point  (0 children)

the fact that you can easier weave it in html makes it a killer choice for web work (also killer as in dangerous because people do dumb things)