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Originally posted by Ganjasaurus
thanks man... i appreciate the input.
why do you think these people are all using non php scripts??? any other benefits to jsp?
if money were not an issue, what would you use?
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In my opinion, the single biggest reason people use cfm and jsp is that they miscalculated how the market would develop a few years ago.
cfm has some benefits compared to php, to be fair... better error handling, better search functions, but ultimately it lacks the flexibility of php. It's also *supposed* to be faster, but I've never actually seen it work faster than php in practice.
It is often said about jsp that those who use it have more money than sense, and that's pretty much true. It's an entirely different scene and tradition, but one that is doomed imo.
Personally, I prefer C, mod_perl and PHP. C is fastest, ofcourse, but programming takes long and debugging is a pain in the ass. Also, there are way less skilled programmers available for it than for PHP.
PHP is easy, fast, flexible, there are tons of programmers for it and the amount of open source scripts that are available is insane. It lacks the speed of C and mod_perl though, and in all honesty it isn't a real "programming" language.
For most sites I'd still go with PHP, simply because making changes is easy, and there is tons of stuff available when I need it.