If you're doing stuff server side on a website, rather than wanting to run an app on a mobile, PHP can be a good 'toy' language to get started with. It has similar syntax to C and Java, and is fine for many things. I often prototype something in PHP then rewrite it in C. A lot of the time I don't even bother rewriting: there's no point having something run twice as fast in C when it only takes 2 seconds under PHP.
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