It is amazing that people are willing to sink thousands of hours into programming around PHP's problems (probably without noticing) because they are afraid to run "cpan -i Some::Modules" and cut-n-paste a FastCGI configuration into their web server's config file.
Ease of deployment is nice, but deploying other languages is not much harder, and it's significantly easier to actually write a reliable application.
Ease of deployment is nice, but deploying other languages is not much harder, and it's significantly easier to actually write a reliable application.