> With Python and any of the Python frameworks, it's two lines. And one is most likely not explicitly bringing in HTTP request parsing, but just connecting all

> With Python and any of the Python frameworks, it's two lines. And one is most likely not explicitly bringing in HTTP request parsing, but just connecting all the plumbing. Yes, but in the case of PHP, PHP itself is the plumbing. You literally write `$_POST['param-name']` and you have the data. Using Python would require you to either write a bunch of logic enough to abstract it to have it like PHP, or require a 3rd-party library (or framework) for it to be one line. > You seriously need to play more with other languages. I suggest you learn one or more of the "weird" ones, such as APL (avoid the ASCII notation, dig deep into the symbols), Erlang, or Lisp. It'll bring in a lot of perspective for you. I'm saying this as someone who does play with lots of languages almost every day and my day-job is writing Clojure code (for both backend and frontend work). I might have missed a "As most of every new language" part in my previous statement. I'm not saying all languages are C-like, they're obviously not. But most of the popular new language do have a syntax-heritage stemming back to C (compared to languages with S-expressions), like Rust, TypeScript/JavaScript, Java, C++, C#, Python, Ruby, Golang and more, and they are mostly focusing on being general purpose useful. Btw, I don't think lisp-like languages are the weird ones, the C-like languages are the ones that are weird. You should play around with more languages and you'll see why :)