PL are one piece of the (user,problem,tool) trinity. Every time you ask yourself why ? the reason is because for a particular triplet, it was the best solution.
Give a newcomer sml with no easy way to integrate with a HTTP server and watch the confusion grow. On the other hand PHP has good apache integration, is a simple platform : a .php file with html and code, press F5 observe your results and is a deceptively non complex language.
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PL are one piece of the (user,problem,tool) trinity. Every time you ask yourself why ? the reason is because for a particular triplet, it was the best solution.
Give a newcomer sml with no easy way to integrate with a HTTP server and watch the confusion grow. On the other hand PHP has good apache integration, is a simple platform : a .php file with html and code, press F5 observe your results and is a deceptively non complex language.