Or, even c/C++, or *shudder* java?
Some cavaliers (Timwi, Magnus, Manfred) have made oeil- lades in that direction, Ed; and a C engine would enable us to dish out pages, say, as a native Apache handler.
It's a big project, however; and the .php, being just functional enough, engenders a fatal inertia.
-- Peter Danenberg . wikisophia.org ..: