[newbie] Equivalent to PHP?

[Gilles]

On Wed, 13 Jun 2012 23:16:31 +0200, Christian Heimes
<lists at cheimes.de> wrote:
>PHP was developed for non-developers. (see
>http://me.veekun.com/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/ ).
>It's much easier and also cheaper to find bad coders and non-developers
>than code people. The outcome is bad performance and lots of security
>issues.

And as to why Facebook chose PHP...