Why PHP is so much more popular for web-development

[Jon Ribbens]

On 2007-07-26, Steve Holden <steve at holdenweb.com> wrote:
>> That sounds trivial to ameliorate (at least somewhat) by putting your
>> uploads in a directory whose name is known only to you (let's say it's
>> a random 20-letter string).  The parent directory can be protected to
>> not allow reading the subdirectory names.
>
> But you have to admit that's "security by obscurity".

Um, no?