On Wed, 22 Jul 2009, Jon Gorman wrote:
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Good point. One of my main thoughts was that ruby and python are both
"hot" languages right now and there might be a lot of tutorials and
tolerance out there now for the "hello world" type of approaches. I
also considered for suggesting perl, but was afraid of being stoned
;). PHP is popular and a pretty common entry language and it does
have a nice feedback loop as you pointed out. One concern would be
that to get a handle on the web app related stuff you'll need a web
server + php. That's been getting easier and easier to set up though.
XAMPP or any of the '*AMP' bundles make giving you a platform for PHP /
Perl (or Python) web development completely trivial:
http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_AMP_packages
-Joe
