scottywz wrote:
Why would someone use Perl or Python over PHP or ASP? I'm just curious.
Hrm, as for me, I use Python whenever I can. I've been using it more and more for websites, because CherryPy makes it less painful than it used to be (CGI and mod_python are painful.) Besides the fact that I consider Python to be "more fun," it's usually easier to read other people's source code (or even my own!) because the language by nature enforces clean code. Even the best php apps are not very easy to read and figure out right away.
As a side note, the question probably should have been "why would someone use python vs. php & asp" or "perl vs. php & asp" because other than being interpreted languages, Python and Perl are quite different philosophically.