Java Server Pages > PHP

Why the do people use PHP when JSP exists? It kills PHP in just about every metric: runtime performance, separation of code, portability, and throughput.
[ http://www.research.ibm.com/trl/people/mich/pub/200812_middleware2008specweb.pdf ]

The other alternative is ASP.NET if you're stuck on Microsoft shite. I still don't understand why SLOW AS FUCK PHP is still so widely used.

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Perl is a toy language. Its type system especially is insane. In the syntax department, it is ugly and inconsistent and has sugar for useless things but not for useful things. The entirety of Perl reeks of extreme worse-is-better design, which means no design at all. The Perl cult abuses concepts such as DWIM, TIMTOWTDI or the UNIX philosophy to justify such attitude, which explains why CPAN is a mountain of shit.
But it's even worse than that. I can understand the use of a poor language if it has some decisive advantage like the performance of the code generated by C compilers. That's not the case for Perl. Its implementation is ridiculously slow and its garbage collector is a joke. There really isn't any reason to use it.
Stop using that horrible language.