Is it still acceptable to use PHP?

And I don't mean acceptable by /prog/'s  bullshit standards. I mean by your average web developer.

Also, is it acceptable by /prog/'s standards?

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The question should be, is CGI in general better?
The answer: for small sites, it sure is. Not limited to Perl. I've done stuff in Ruby, Lua, and even Python in CGI.

Actually, who am I kidding here? Just about any language is better than PHP. Except for all that shit based on Java, of course.