[newbie] Equivalent to PHP?

[Gilles]

On Wed, 13 Jun 2012 10:19:29 +1000, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com>
wrote:
>It's far simpler to manage, it retains running state, and is easily
>enough encapsulated. It's the non-magic way of doing things. Also, it
>plays very nicely with the MUD style of process, which is something I
>do a lot with Pike. Plus, if you manage it right, you have a guarantee
>that you can never be in a half-updated state - that's somewhat tricky
>when you have inter-dependencies in PHP code and the file system
>itself manages things. What happens if a request comes in while you're
>half-way through uploading new code to the server? By default, you
>could use half old code and half new code. Keeping everything in
>memory makes it easier to prevent that.

Thanks for the input.