Maybe D is right about GC after all !

[Patrick Schluter]

On Sunday, 24 December 2017 at 22:21:28 UTC, Tony wrote:
> On Sunday, 24 December 2017 at 22:04:00 UTC, Dan Partelly wrote:
>
>>
>> 1995. A dark year. Two of the crappiest language ever devised 
>> by man arrived. Both gained traction. Java, through marketing. 
>> PhP though tribalism.
>
> What makes Java a "crappy" language?
>
> I think PHP's success is due to its ability to integrate HTML 
> statements. Also, it was often the only option back in the day 
> from cheap web hosting services. And it seemed like on those 
> cheap web hosts, when offered, Python and Perl were accessed 
> via CGI, while PHP used via an Apache module which I think gave 
> it a speed/resource utilization advantage.

PHP's success came from the fact that it was free (like in beer) 
and free (like in open source). All other webserver languages 
were at that time either brittle and  difficult (cgi+perl) or 
high cost solutions like ColdFusion. PHP had the advantage that 
providers could install them on their server farms without 
breaking the bank and also with a semblence of performance and 
security.
LAMP could only become what it is because of the free/free aspect 
of its component.