Yet the fact of the matter is that's how the cards fell - we had the well-designed, well-implemented languages and frameworks that failed utterly to find any fo

Yet the fact of the matter is that's how the cards fell - we had the well-designed, well-implemented languages and frameworks that failed utterly to find any foothold with amateurs and beginners, and only found refuge with the Java EE-enabled engineers. When did we have all that? In 1995, when PHP was started, I remember having Perl, shell scripts, and C server-side CGIs. I don't recall significantly better viable alternatives becoming available until quite some time later.