Server-Side Web Languages

Hi, I'm posting this poll as research for a project I am doing on server-side web languages. Please take the time to vote. If you have time please take time to respond to the following survey as well, thank you.

Thank you for reading through this survey. It will only take a few minutes to fill out, depending on how detailed your responses are. This information will be used for and included in a research report on the benefits of individual web languages, as well as their weaknesses, cost, popularity, and difficulty.
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Question #1: What is your favorite server-side web language to use?

Question #2: Why are the benefits and weaknesses does this language have?

Question #3: What do you feel are the best applications of this language?

Question #4: What are some other web languages you like to use?

Question #5: What are the benefits and weaknesses of those languages?

Question #6: What other languages are you interested in and why?

Thank you for taking your time to respond to this survey.

1.) Actually PHP.

2.)
Benefits: Fast, easy, free, open source, many help from others and many servers running it.

Weakness: For me none.

3.) Websites (Banner systems, Forums, Polls, Control Panel, Content Management) and Intranet systems.

4.) ASP, Perl, JavaScript, XML and Visual Basic.

5.)
-- ASP --
Benefits: Support, new improvements by the developer company (Microsoft)

Weakness: Not as fast as PHP, runs only in Windows, difficult to work with arrays, you cannot make variable variable like in PHP (ex.: $$my_variable), too much database connectivity through ODBC.

-- Perl --
Benefits: It's a powerfull language, can control many things (like Networks...), can be used as a shell script and was the 1st language.

Weakness: Not as easy to learn, no code limitation (like PHP's <?php ?> or ASP's <% %>, slower than PHP but almost same time with ASP...

-- JavaScript --
Benefits: Can do things on the client side, easy, powerfull.
Weakness: Very limited and very hard to work with databases.

-- XML --
Benefits: 1-4-All... Create only one XML file and make 10 different front-ends with it, has a standard and it's easy.

Weakness: Too some sortification of tools to use.

-- Visual Basic --
Benefits: Support, compiled, fast.
Weakness: Run only in Windows.

6.) Java, ASP.NET, C# and C++
Why? Java is pre-compiled but has no hardware limitation to run on. ASP.NET as I already program in ASP, do an upgrade is always good to keep in touch with new technology. C# and C++ because they're the fastest languages and a lot of code, support.

1) PHP

2) Ease of use, its quick, its free, its open source, there's tons of support from fellow coders.. And as for weaknesses the only one that I could think of would be that it does not have full support for everything... yet.
3) Dynamic content for webpages

4) Perl, VB, VBA

5) Perl -> is very powerful, and it can apply to not only webservers but other network functions and applications. However it is kind of difficult to learn..

VB -> it's quick, it's compileable, Compatibility.. But, its windows only
VBA -> same as above, but it's limited in its compatiblity and also it does not have as many features as VB

6) Java, ASP.NET, C, C++, VB.NET

Mainly because I have not used the above much <except for VB.NET> .. and I want to learn as much as I can
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1) PHP

2) Benefits:
Easy to learn, free, open source, great community support. Low cost in deployement.

Weaknesses:
Little support for OOP.

3) Dynamic websites, CMS, applications that need to be created in small timeframes.

4) Servlets, JSP

5) Free, portability, and huge community.

6) C#: Similar to Java and is gaining large community support.
J2ME: Incredible for small devices (PDAs, mobile phones, etc.)


Posure: Will this research report be available for viewing once it's done? I'd love to read it.

Question #1: What is your favorite server-side web language to use?
Answer #1: PHP

Question #2: Why are the benefits and weaknesses does this language have?
Answer #2: Benefits include speed of development and continous upgrade/updating of the language. Weaknesses include not following the "OO" model completely.

Question #3: What do you feel are the best applications of this language?
Answer #3: data/database manipulated applications (CMS, Forums (BB), Ecommerce).

Question #4: What are some other web languages you like to use?
Answer #4: JS, CSS

Question #5: What are the benefits and weaknesses of those languages?
Answer #5:
JS: benefits include real-time interaction.
JS: weaknesses include no single format for cross-browser compatibility.

CSS: benefits include page format control
CSS: weaknesses include no single format for cross-browser compatibility


Question #6: What other languages are you interested in and why?
Answer #6: .NET - reason: it's a new avenue and seems to have a lot of potential.

Question #1: What is your favorite server-side web language to use?

PHP

Question #2: Why are the benefits and weaknesses does this language have?

It's easy to learn, fast to develop with, has lots of great modules. On the down side, I don't like recompiling PHP every time I need to add some module.

Question #3: What do you feel are the best applications of this language?
I use it to easily create web applications with database backends.

Question #4: What are some other web languages you like to use?
Perl, JavaScript

Question #5: What are the benefits and weaknesses of those languages?
Only use JavaScript for client side form validation - I find it too difficult to work with much. Perl is great but harder to use when writing web apps. I only go to it when I can't do something very easily in PHP (not often) or if I need to do some scripts that will run stricly from command line/cron.
Question #6: What other languages are you interested in and why? Java - everyone is using it and Python - I'm intrigued by the buzz.

thank you to everyone who responded to either the poll or the survey (or both)



sorry for the late reply..probably not..its for a class and i'm not the best writer..if you want the results though..php is overwhelmingly popular but there is a heavy interest in JSP (including myself after research)..asp is also somewhat popular (as anticipated) with interest in .NET

Popularity:
ColdFusion: 6%
Perl (CGI..): 6%
JSP: 7%
ASP: 19%
PHP: 62%

Well, good luck with it all! Hopefully you get a well-deserved mark for doing some market research!

Are you new to JSP, or have you been developing with it for sometime?

Sorry to jump in this thread a little late (a couple of weeks) - but I would just like to clarify something on your poll questions. There is no such thing as a CGI Scripting Langauge.

Just wanted to clarify that...