bofh wrote:
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> On language - remember, PHP's design goal (as late as v3) was for complete
> non-programmers to be able to pick it up and write programs immediately.
> You can imagine how that can cause issues for security.  Most libraries or
> add-ons you install for PHP require you to run in insecure mode.  PHP is the
> opensource answer to visual basic, in the "yes, we can create absolute
> insecure crap too" sense.  If you want to do something similar to what
> openbsd is doing, use C
In my opinion it's not impossible/hard to write secure code in PHP, 
don't compare it to Visual Basic please :)
And to do some web development in C it's a little insane, except when 
you need some resources/speed other languages don't provide.

Maybe the best languages for start web development would be PHP and 
Perl, i don't know about ruby since i've never used it, but a lot of 
people talks nicely about it ;)

HTH,
Vinicius