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on Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 09:52:12AM +0800, Shay Telfer wrote:
> PHP is not generally applicable outside the domain of web pages 
> though,

I find PHP useful for prototyping a variety of any plain-text formats
(not just HTML). However, applications-wise, I actually prefer Java
over Python or PHP (even though I prefer the latter two for rapid
prototyping).