A plea for thinking it through before picking a server side language for Web development. Only a couple of points I’d disagree with. One, PHP is not a direct descendant of Perl. Two, I don’t think PC Labs and CNet are entirely objective since they live and die on advertising.
Web publishing auture Philip Greenspun pitches the AOL server to the Apache crowd at LinuxWorld. “Apache needs 360 Unix processes to achieve what AOLserver does in 9″ However if you run AOL server, you’re limited to writing your code in TCL. Apache’s strength is that it supports extensions in Perl, C++, PHP, Python, and even [...]
[ via space.com ] Flying a spacecraft past an asteroid requires patience, TK/TCL, numeric libraries and pizza.
A link page for three of the ‘big four’ scripting languages: Perl, Python and TK/TCL, and XML Link