Actually I find Perl's type system to make the most sense for web work:

1) Any zero length string or 0 valued int is classed as false, which is handy when checking the returns from query strings et al.

2) You can use eq for string comparison or == for numeric checking, which means which is handy has you can read values from a query string and then compare it against an int without having to do type conversion.

Don't get me wrong, I don't have anything against statically typed languages - in fact I normally prefer them. But the way Perl does type checking I find reduces the number of type problems when dealing with web development.

That all said, I much prefer working with structured types in Go than in Perl.

hello.go uses more lines defining variables and types than the entirely of many of the alternatives I posted. Obviously they will be a little longer if they implement the fortune handler, but I doubt that will really make much of a difference.

> Also, Go is statically typed = win

I'm not sure what that has to do with implementation size (which is the only thing I was addressing), but feel free to make a case.