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> The "easy in a good way" part. Or rather, the "easy in a way which > doesn't need shell access, know where the perl on your system is, and > require that you completely rebuild your simple beginner web page and > wrap it in a hashbang and print statements in order to just put > today's date at the top". Well, I don't know about getting todays date on the top, but the rest of that sounds like Perl if it's not packaged with your system. You know that once upon a time there were still a few systems like that? :) Of course Apple includes Perl in OS X. Unfortunately, they now also include PHP. Now, riddle me this. Why, when the OS ships with a Cocoa binding for fetching web pages, and it ships with libcurl, and it ships with Perl, and Tcl, and god knows what else... why would someone run a PHP script to fetch a file over HTTP? > PHP does, of course, have security holes so large they should be > considered gaping security caverns surrounded by twinkly fairy lights, > but don't be fooled into thinking that this is a major factor in its > success; more, a happy little side-effect. It's not the security holes, it's that it lets you pretend they're not there. Until you go out in the rain and the tissue paper covering them gets soggy.There's stuff above here
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