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PHP, because it is simple, powerful, has bindings for everything, and the largest community with huge projects like Wordpress and Drupal. I know it isn't as trendy as python but all of the arguments made so far for python apply to php as well, and php is older and more widespread.

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Python actually predates PHP by quite a bit.

A (non-scientific) look at Wikipedia puts Python's first public release in 1991, and PHP in 1995. But Python's roots actually go back to the late 80s, while PHP was started and released in 1995. PHP was really originally created as a collection of helper functions, not a full programming language.

Python is actually 4 years older than PHP.

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