I don't like php. I tried it once and I had it sort a list, but the list was apparently too long for its sorting function because it just sorted the first so-many elements of it and left the rest in order, and didn't generate any error. I like a language that's actually determined by what you tell it to do. I hear it has a lot of security issues too. I'm not sure that php *runs* faster than python, having seen benchmarks, but it certainly loads faster. Maybe not so much of a difference once python25.dll is already in the cache though (speaking from a windows perspective). because when i load a program it can take a while but it's pretty quick if i'd just loaded one recently. but you don't necessarily have to load python for each page rendering anyway.
I like the Python language a lot better than php. but I just really like Python. php mixes html and code out-of-the-box (sort of.. i guess it's more like a reversal of which one is explicit)... if you use Python you should look into a 'templating engine' like mako. i use cheetah, but mako is supposed to be better. i think Python is the easiest language to learn, with the possible exception of qbasic (just because making multidimensional arrays in python isnt that obvious, although maybe it is using numpy, i've never tried it). Python isn't as easy as basic if you use/have to read the more advanced features, but those aren't even available in basic. so I find it a comfortable learning curve. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
