[NTLUG:Discuss] Wanting to speak the language

[Steve Baker]

Patrick R. Michaud wrote:

> As the author of PmWiki (wrich is written entirely in PHP), 
> I'll have to point out that PHP is definitely a 'programming' 
> language.  No, PHP isn't compilable, but then neither are Perl 
> or the shell languages either.

Indeed - and I was quite suprised to find it in the number four
slot.  If I had to bet, I'd have said that JavaScript, Perl,
Python, C# and Visual Basic would all have had it beat.

Don't ya just *love* language wars!

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