Web programming languages Options

[Rosetta]

This topic will be about Web programming languages, and your personal thoughts on them. (Serious opinions only. Stuff like "It sucks" or "It's good" won't be acceptable, give explanations.)

I'll start off by listing ones I have worked with.

Perl: Perl seems pretty neat to me, I can work with it quite well without getting lost in the code as it grows bigger. It is decently fast, and scaleable from what i've seen. I recommend it for medium to large web projects. Perl 6 is coming out soon, so we may see some even better things!

PHP: PHP is a stable, fast language that I find ease in working with. It is similar to Perl in many ways, but is also independant in others. I recommend it for small to large web projects, and for begginers and experts alike.

JSP: Just..ick. I've heard some good things about JSP (like it's fast, easy to learn and use, scaleable, etc)but I have not seen any of those 'facts' proven whatsoever when I tried to do JSP. When I make a script in JSP, after about 10 lines, i'm already lost. The syntax is just bloated and not human friendly at all. When i finished the JSP pages I did, and executed them on my server, it put unneccessary stress on it, and also loaded incredibly slow. (Ranged from 4 seconds to 10 seconds each page), it might have been good a few years ago, but personally, I would NOT recommend it for just about anything.

ASP: I spent 2 days learning basic ASP, and it was mediocre. It was similar to JSP, but was faster and a bit less bloated. The only problem I see with it is that it can only be run on Microsoft IIS server, which isn't bad, but is not known for being very stable compared to the most commonly used server software (apache). If you want to learn ASP, go right ahead. It's more of a "love it or hate it" language.