Re: [PHP] PHP vs JAVA

On 13-08-20 10:00 AM, Tedd Sperling wrote:
> Hi guys:
>
> A teacher at my college made the statement that JAVA for Web Development is more popular than PHP.
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> Where can I go to prove this right or wrong -- and/or -- what references do any of you have to support your answer? (sounds like a teacher, huh?)
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> Here are my two references:
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> http://w3techs.com/technologies/details/pl-php/all/all
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> http://w3techs.com/technologies/history_overview/programming_language/ms/y
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> But I do not know how accurate they are.
>
>
I think you can use w3techs.com as a very reliable source.

But your teacher may have been talking about "javascript" which is not 
the same thing as java despite the similarity in their names.

Javascript is part of the web page, and executes in the users browser. 
It is very common and may rival PHP in frequency of use.

-- 
Stephen