While from a professional IT and security perspective it makes sense not to pre-install what may be an arbitrary language in a dated version providing unnecessa

While from a professional IT and security perspective it makes sense not to pre-install what may be an arbitrary language in a dated version providing unnecessary extra attack surface, things are different from an educational perspective: Installing a Web server AND a database AND a programming language may well be too much for the impatient & low-attention span generation before trying out a 4-line "hello, world!" Web page, so some folks may never try to get into programming (which today is typically Web dev), full stop. (Putting on old grumpy man voice) These kids today couldn't enter 15 pages of machine code in hex from game magazines as we once did. (end ranting voice)