[Shootout-list] Re: Optimizing for speed vs. beauty, php

[Bengt Kleberg]

John Goerzen wrote:
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> I recently re-implemented a website.  I used PHP for it.  I hate PHP the
> language.  But PHP the system and PHP the community are excellent for
> that sort of thing, so although the lack of warnings about typod
> variable names makes me cringe, I got it done a lot faster than I would
> have had I used Python, OCaml, or C.

there are alternatives to php. one that officially states it intention 
in this respect is yaws (http://yaws.hyber.org/).

if you like functional programming you might like yaws. no help with 
typos included.


bengt