At two extremes 1) You want to develop something fast and dirty - Go for scripting language. Out of them PHP is the dirtiest and fastest out of gate and thus th

At two extremes 1) You want to develop something fast and dirty - Go for scripting language. Out of them PHP is the dirtiest and fastest out of gate and thus the best choice. 2) Want someting battle hard with lots of extendability - Go for a stuctured language - Java or C# will work best here. Between these two extremes run all others with their fair share of incongruencies and imperfections. They are just not popular and probably never will be. So I don't care. Let me know when there is a language that slaps me on the wrist for bad design and coding!