Re: [PHP] PHP vs JAVA

On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 10:00 AM, Tedd Sperling <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi guys:
>
> A teacher at my college made the statement that JAVA for Web Development is more popular than PHP.
>
> 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?)
>
> Here are my two references:
>
> http://w3techs.com/technologies/details/pl-php/all/all
>
> http://w3techs.com/technologies/history_overview/programming_language/ms/y
>
> But I do not know how accurate they are.
>
> What say you?

    While I couldn't find anything comparable - from the same source
and window of time - for Java trends on the web, there was an article
released by Netcraft in January of this year that shows PHPs continued
growth[1].  It may, at the least, provide a basis for comparison
should you or your adversary be so inclined to dig deeper.


        ^1: http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2013/01/31/php-just-grows-grows.html

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</Daniel P. Brown>
Network Infrastructure Manager
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