User: maddev

frameworks (patterns,devel tools) play a big part.

On: Choice of Language for Large-Scale Web Apps?

framework which supports powerful patterns, and have nice toolset with it is very crucial for choosing a certain language. PHP, java, perl, python has lots of good frameworks and new kid on the block is a ruby framework rubyonrails (http://www.rubyonrails.com/ you should certainly check it out.