And to Jeff Atwood's original point, you cannot copy-paste the file onto basically any http webhost on earth and have it run out of the box. I don't think that'

And to Jeff Atwood's original point, you cannot copy-paste the file onto basically any http webhost on earth and have it run out of the box. I don't think that's appreciated in the threads thus far, is that web hosting companies have really done a lot of work for you for PHP and Perl that you have to do yourself with other web programming platforms. They might be better, but they aren't as universally available and supported. (For some value of "supported" which is usually "enough")