Posted by Deevan in “PHP has become the most popular language in which to develop Web applications. Gutmans said more than one-third of all Web apps are written in PHP. “We call it the Visual Basic of the Web,” he said. PHP applications run on a Web server, with the output generated as HTML Web pages. The second-most-popular programming language on the Web is Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT)’s .Net, with Sun’s Java third. Other scripting languages, now often called dynamic languages because they compile at runtime, come next, such as Perl, Python, and CGI.”
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