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Choice of Language for Large-Scale Web Apps?

Posted by Cliff on from the dilemma-of-many-choices dept.

anyon wonders: "PHP is the most popular language for the web. eBay uses ISAPI (C), Google uses C/C++ (search), Java (gmail), and Python. Microsoft uses ASP (what else?). For small web site, it really doesn't matter. What's your take on language choice for large-scale web applications? Maybe language choice is irrelevant, only good people (developers) matter? If you can get the same good quality people, then what language you would chose? Considering the following factors: performance, scalability, extendibility, cost of development (man-month), availability of libraries, cost of libraries, development tools? Has there been a comprehensive comparison done?"

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  1. Perl. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    For everything.

  2. all these new languages are hype by Dysenteryduke · · Score: 5, Funny

    For large scale applications, java, c/c++, perl, PHP just don't cut it. You should really check out mod_fortran. Everything you love about fortran with none of the hype.

    1. Re:all these new languages are hype by deaddrunk · · Score: 5, Funny

      Even IBM COBOL has web extensions and an XML parser these days; I've used them to generate reports.

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  3. Lotus Domino by Kenja · · Score: 5, Funny
    Hell, if I have to suffer so should all of you.

    (yes I program with this monstrosity of a system)

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