Re: PHP vs. ASP

From: Alan Little (alan_at_n-o-s-p-a-m-phorm.com)
Date: 11/26/04 

Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 10:22:34 -0600

Carved in mystic runes upon the very living rock, the last words of
godfader of comp.lang.php make plain:

> I read somewhere that asp is much more better.if someone has plan to
> do more complex job (like web shop or with databases) than it is
> better for that person to learn asp.

I'm going to assume you mean VBScript, since that's the most common ASP
language, and what most people mean when they say "ASP".

I have worked extensively in both PHP and VBScript. My VBScript code is
quite frequently studded with comments ranting about the language. It is
appallingly limited, awkward and clunky, and usually requires third-party
extensions (often not free) to do anything useful; things that other
languages do natively.

I can't speak for ASP.Net, as I've never worked with it (knock on wood).
But as someone else pointed out, how long before it's replaced with
ASP.Whatever.Incompatible.MakeBuxforMS?

PHP crosses platforms quite easily -- I've developed entire apps with it
on *nix and Windows, Apache and IIS. Chilisoft (now owned by Sun, I
believe) makes an ASP gateway for *nix, but I don't know how well it
works.

If you're working on a Windows platform and don't want to use PHP, try
Cold Fusion instead. It has its weaknesses, but is light years beyond
VBScript. Hell, Malbolge is light years beyond VBScript. 

-- 
Alan Little
Phorm PHP Form Processor
http://www.phorm.com/

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