Interpreted vs. Compiled Languages for Web Sites (PHP, ASP, Perl, Python, etc.)

Question

I build database-driven web sites. Previously I have used Perl or PHP with MySQL.

Now I am starting a big new project, and I want to do it in the way that will result in

Answer 1

IMHO it is quite a non-sense to write a complex web app using a compiled language, as it gives not benefits against a number of manageability problems.

There a lot of ways to rise up performances and scalability in a scripted language, both at language level and at system level, being the minor performances gain eventually available with a compiled language totally influential.

On the other side I find very useful to be possible to follow an agile development and bug hunting schema, simply changing your code and seeing the results.