Why no love for PHP? 
octane: PHP sucks, that much is clear to anyone who's ever used Python or Ruby or whatever.  But...1.  It's on every server.2.  It works consistently.3.  There's a lot of it already written.4.  It's easy to find people who know it.5.  Who will work for reasonable pay.#4 and #5 are usually overlooked by people for various reasons which I won't get into here.You really have to go back to the days of Perl SSI, cgi-bin scripts, and stdout shell scripts to really understand why PHP became popular in the first place.  The whole inline code paradigm grew directly out of Apache SSI and how much it sucked.