> Give me all of this and you’ll make me a much happier coder.
I think comments regarding ponies would be superfluous...
I mean, it's not as if things are the way they are just to make your life miserable. It's a matter of the incentives involved. And anyway, if you want to 'just get started', PHP is pretty good at that. You can have your hello world page up on the internet in a few minutes.
A "Hello World" PHP site is nowhere near the complexity of a web web application. More importantly, when you start cutting corners by avoiding those steps (As so many PHP developers seem to do) the complexity gets worse.
I'm not really a fan of PHP, but I think it's fair to say that it does let you get started doing really basic stuff quickly and easily. Especially when it came out, that was a pretty big point in its favor compared to the other things out there at the time.
I think comments regarding ponies would be superfluous...
I mean, it's not as if things are the way they are just to make your life miserable. It's a matter of the incentives involved. And anyway, if you want to 'just get started', PHP is pretty good at that. You can have your hello world page up on the internet in a few minutes.