"Ted" <ted / datacomm.com> wrote in message news:<KMS-75662537-3752 / volvo.datacomm.com>...
> Someone made a comment (I paraphrase) like "PHP can do it, but with complete insecurity", and opined that Ruby is more secure than PHP.

I think php has a lingering bad rep from the days of "submitted
parameters become top level variables in your script".  That behaviour
is disabled by default in recent versions of php.

~ Patrick