* The current state of low-cost web hosting makes PHP and MySQL the
clear contenders as the development platform of choice, much to the
chagrin of some.
Language choice is not simply a matter of chagrin. It is a matter of
freedom and cooperation. Lets keep talking about how to unify
development efforts in many languages (and locales) by developing a
robust protocol and allowing creative minds to flourish by using
development methods of preference.
Secondly, languages such as Perl, Python, and Ruby are commonly
supported on cheap web hosts including 1and1, Arvixe, BlueHost,
DreamHost, FastDomain, FatCow, GoDaddy, Greenville, HostClear,
HostGator, HostMonster, iPage, ixWebHosting, JustHost, MochaHost, to
name several.
I am a novice programmer but I see projects such as JRuby, Jython, and
Scala which are gluing together languages and development paradigms.
While I recognize the importance of development on a ubiquitous language
such as PHP, I don't think that we should segregate our community at
such an early stage, if at all. We need Solidarity.
--Brylie Oxley
GNU.media Intern
The Woolman Semester
http://woolman.org
(530) 273 - 3183
"..ideas should freely spread from one [person] to another over the
globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man[kind], and
improvement of [our] condition.." - -Thomas Jefferson
