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Posted by earthworm, 14:55, 30th April 2003:
 
Why would I program in PHP over something like ASP?? Someone asked me and they wouldn't accept that I just wanted to learn how... so I want a really technical answer...
Posted by jlittle, 15:04, 30th April 2003:
 
Depends on preference and server - ASP is generally only avalible on Windows servers (Chillisoft of Apache ASP is about, but not many places have it). .NET is apparently a better, more strctured language than php.

At the end of the day, I code in php because i have my own server, and rather than pay shit loads of money to MS, I can build a server for free (software wise).
Posted by beargod, 15:14, 30th April 2003:
 
.NET is apparently a better


HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA I program in .NET everyday and it is just annoying, Although I have not touched ASP .NET I bet Microshaft have changed that too so you have to learn a new language before using it
Posted by jlittle, 15:27, 30th April 2003:
 
www.sitepoint.com/article/870
Posted by cal, 15:40, 30th April 2003:
 
big bonus of php is that there are more programmers out there, so you're not producing stuff which can't be maintained. other than that, it's faster to work with (given experience in both), faster to run, multiplatform, hugely expandable (without resorting to server plugins) with stacks of free example code everywhere and a huge community. and it's a full programming language, whereas ASP still feels like a toy
Posted by ell, 15:45, 30th April 2003:
 
Spot which language Cal prefers.
Posted by arsepuppy, 15:47, 30th April 2003:
 
Esperanto, I'm guessing.
Posted by cal, 15:49, 30th April 2003:
 
hehe. for the web, php is my current weapon of choice. for non-web stuff, i'm a big fan of perl, and find ruby quite interesting.

of course, parrot will be "the next big thing" (tm)
Posted by beargod, 16:03, 30th April 2003:
 
whats wrong with using Perl on the web cal?
Posted by arsepuppy, 16:09, 30th April 2003:
 
Oysters on the keyboard, innit.
Posted by cal, 16:29, 30th April 2003:
 
to use perl on the web you have to first pick a templating language (and no one uses the same one), then spend alot longer writing code to glue the templates to the logic. then you have to make sure you're using CGI or CGI::Lite, or whatever falvour of the month is. then you have to start worrying about permissions. and check that strict and warnings are on. etc etc

perl is a great programming language, but it can be too flexible when it comes to the web. everyone uses different wheels and you end up having to support applications you can't understand, using modules that aren't supported. it takes longer to do simple things.
Posted by earthworm, 16:41, 30th April 2003:
 
hmm... I think I'll still try to learn PHP... It also helps that there are people like Grim and Cal who are willing to answer questions. this place and www.hsmx.com/gf5 are both great learning tools!! Like I have said before, they don't teach PHP at the college where I work otherwise I would learn from here... but thats what you get for being whores of Microshite...
Posted by beargod, 17:17, 30th April 2003:
 
Isn't perl slightly faster then PHP once everything is set up and running
Posted by cal, 09:05, 1st May 2003:
 
it depends. yes and no. depends on configurations and what you're doing

so, in summary, that's a stupid question
Posted by beargod, 09:31, 1st May 2003:
 
well i'm a stupid person so expect more of them