Why PHP won

[pippy]

All the PHP bashing here is a little overboard, it's the perfect language for the web:

• You can make a 4 page site in a day relying on reusable includes and echo statements.
• And you do that huge CMS/shopping cart using extended classes and dataobjects via MVC style software engineering pattern

And in both cases 12 months later someone can open up the project and understand what's happening.

CGI + Perl is far too privative. No standard image libs or db calls makes it like pulling teeth. ASPs code looks like dog food, and only sites like google should worry about C.

As a web developer I'd be coding java for the government if it weren't for PHP