Web Development

whats the best language to use for web development?

ASP.NET
PHP
Java
coldFusion
Ruby
Python
....perl?

ASP.NET - Runs on top of the .NET CLR, so very fast. The standard library feels poorly put together though. Still, allows for very rapid prototyping if using the standard WebForms interface. Once you get used to it, MVC is a dream.

PHP - Easy for beginners to pick up, but the overall design is technically poor, but it wasn't designed for programmers at all.

ColdFusion - Don't know much about this one, MySpace was originally written in ColdFusion though, then again MySpace is shit, so who knows.

JAVA - tbh, it's a very powerful language, but the code is just overly verbose.

Ruby - A very powerful language, that actually inherits some really cool features from LISP. Is also a fully OO language. But not as quick as some of the other solutions out there(and the Rails framework is a lumbering hulk, which only further compounds this issue.)

Python - Damn sexy language, but the white space might throw you off.

Perl - Cool language, you can do slick things in it, but it seems like most of the remaining Perlers spend all day 'golfing' and writing obfuscated code?