[priyankt]

I think most of the web startups prefer scripting languages in which their founders/developers are comfortable. It could be Php, Java, Ruby, Python or any other language. I would prefer Perl as I m good with it and can get things done quickly :)

[dgunn]

I agree. Before we started our project we had to decide which web framework to use. We chose Django because we're comfortable with python. Also, django seemed to be very well documented. (The others may also have great docs. I don't know cause I've never really checked.)