On 26 Dec 2006, at 07.42, Peter da Silva wrote:
As far as I can tell one of the reasons PHP won was because it had a really sucky half-assed web security model that made PHP applications no more secure than anything else, but made people think that because it paid lip service to web security it was actually doing something for them. So they could avoid thinking about it.
I think one major reason PHP "won" is that it's so stupidly easy that it allows bad programmers to write web apps that, although horribly ugly, at least work (in some sense of the word). With PHP, "there's always more than one way to do it" holds true, but in this case, that usually means a few decent ways and then a whole bunch of really, really hateful ways which all happen to be much easier than the decent ways.
