I'm pretty sure that we all have our own favortie programming language. Personally, I prefer interpreted vs. compiled. But, I can do both. Both have their own place, and each is designed to do something else. Sure, you can make them do the same thing, but when you have to actually DO something with them, they each have their own strenghts and weaknesses. They were designed to work like that. How about instead of getting mired down in some stupid flame war, you start teaching people your favorite language, and start learning the others.
 
And for gods sake, start with ruby. It dont get easier.
 
**all just MY opinion

PHP is actually a useful tool for server side stuff. But yeah, figure out how to do it first, then pick which language to code it in.

Did you hard code these, or use some program?

Hear me out guys: old skool BBS.

I don't think pinging yourself will get you more results

Ya never know. Sometimes you do dumb shit.  <shrug> Just throwing out an idea.

Probably a dumb question, but have you tried pinging localhost? If that fails, try using netstat to track down the running port. Btw, what exactly are you trying to do?

I thought this was funny. I like that part about drinking the whole bottle

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/10/09/tech/innovation/bravo-reality-show-silicon-valley/index.html

Thats handy, thanks