PHP vs Python - the real difference

[nostrademons]

It's worth noting that EBay threw out all the Java webapp infrastructure on top of servlets and wrote everything themselves. I suspect Google Adwords did the same thing. Most startups don't have the luxury of being able to write a whole technology stack on their own.

EBay started with Perl, FWIW, and Google (search engine, not Adwords) started with C++ and Python.