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On Wed, 22 Jul 2009, Jon Gorman wrote: [trimmed] > Good point. One of my main thoughts was that ruby and python are both > "hot" languages right now and there might be a lot of tutorials and > tolerance out there now for the "hello world" type of approaches. I > also considered for suggesting perl, but was afraid of being stoned > ;). PHP is popular and a pretty common entry language and it does > have a nice feedback loop as you pointed out. One concern would be > that to get a handle on the web app related stuff you'll need a web > server + php. That's been getting easier and easier to set up though. XAMPP or any of the '*AMP' bundles make giving you a platform for PHP / Perl (or Python) web development completely trivial: http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_AMP_packages -Joe