The language has fallen two places since last November. Today, it's overshadowed by Python, C, Visual Basic, and JavaScript. "PHP was once the master of web programming, but now it is facing a ...

It has been widely used in microcomputer programming in the past, and various dialects of BASIC have been ... influenced other languages such as JavaScript, PHP and Python. See Ruby.

One thing you can say for PHP is that it’s persistent. Like many long-standing programming languages, it’s often maligned by developers who would like to see a shift to newer candidates ...

PHP: This language for programming web sites is incredibly common ... a virtual explosion at the keyword and function factory." Visual Basic: Microsoft's Visual Basic (and its successor ...

As noted programmer and writer Joel Spolsky says, C is to programming as learning basic anatomy ... that are used in modern languages including C++, Perl, Python, and PHP. Once you've learned ...