Now Pascal has its defficiencies in web programming too. CGI programming tends not to be very scalable, allthough it compensates by raw performance. The trouble is when databases come in, connection pooling is almost impossible to achieve with CGI.
I'm not quite agree with this. CGI programming without a solid framework indeed is not very scalable. But that's not the case if you have a good designed CGI framework. Even database connection pooling is not that hard to do when you have a good CGI framework. Maybe it sounds rather complex and complicated when we're talking about "framework", but as it exists, CGI programming would be as scalable as VCL/LCL based desktop applications.
PHP got its social contacts right, causing many people to evangelise it. Further, besdides that it was easy to learn, had good documentation, and due to the work of Linux distributions, easy to set up and get running.
Agree. This is pretty similar to why C is more popular then pascal. It's simply historical reason, C is born and used before pascal is good enough to compete with C. And the more popular a thing (especially software) the more difficult to be replaced even with something better.
... and if you learn a language, you'd better learn a good one :)
Totally agree. If I can do almost anything using Pascal, why should I learn another language? ;)
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