> "Everybody uses it so it must be good", "Nobody uses it so it must be > bad", these are very weak arguments, there is no such causality.
I didn't say it was good (and I'm no fan of PHP!), but the notion of "appropriate" has many shades of meaning which the original post on "appropriate" did not cover. There is "appropriate" in the sense of "good for getting the job done, with a language that we can find others to maintain if our hotshot whiz kid gets run down by a truck". There is "appropriate" in that we can build a blog in 200 LOC. There is "appropriate" in that we can write a POSIX-compatible OS in one (somewhat long) line of APL that nobody will ever be able to understand :-) There is probably no language that is "appropriate" for all things in all seasons.
