<div dir="ltr"><div>Agree: ease of learning, and popularity.<br><br></div><div>Add to that: <br><br>- being an internet language (anything you write will be on a public server, subject to probes from automated scripts)<br><br></div><div>- available on any cheap shared hosting plan (low cost of entry)<br><br></div><div>- Installing web apps and not updating them (e.g. old versions of WordPress or Drupal with vulnerabilities that were plugged in later versions).<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 11:11 AM, Raymond Chen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:raymondchen625@gmail.com" target="_blank">raymondchen625@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Looks positively related to the popularity or ease to learn of the programming language</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="">On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 10:29 AM, CrankyOldBugger <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:crankyoldbugger@gmail.com" target="_blank">crankyoldbugger@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class=""><div dir="ltr">Essentially, PHP is top of the list..<br><br><a href="http://news.softpedia.com/news/top-programming-languages-that-generate-software-vulnerabilities-497101.shtml" target="_blank">http://news.softpedia.com/news/top-programming-languages-that-generate-software-vulnerabilities-497101.shtml</a><br><br><br></div>
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