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Survey says PHP for the GAO

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In 2000, the U.S. General Accounting Office(GAO) developed its own Web-based survey application using a combination of the open source PHP scripting language and the commercial C language. The GAO chose PHP over Java for a couple of reasons, not the least of which was security.

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gpled ·
I like the idea of GAO publishing their code. Wish the IRS would make an online 1040 in php, and publish it.

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