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Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 05/15/06 17:24
tony@tony.com wrote:
> In article <B6SdncPhraKCSfrZnZ2dnUVZ_tqdnZ2d@comcast.com>,
> jstucklex@attglobal.net says...
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>>You have several choices. ASP comes with IIS, and is free if you have IIS. You
>>can use PHP, Perl, Ruby on Rails, or dozens of others.
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>>There is no one "better way to go" based on your information. There are many
>>other things to consider.
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> I'm obviously using PHP at the moment but I'm coming across things as I
> learn it that are starting to trouble me.
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> You mention perl as an alternative - is there a comparison of the
> features of PHP v PERL anywhere or is that a daft thing to compare?
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> Is there any reason to use one over the other ?
> I dont know anything at all about perl except I have it available.
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Tony,
I don't know of any head-to-head comparisons off hand. They're both good
programming languages which do the job well. In web work they have pretty much
the same features, but obviously the syntax is somewhat different.
I use mainly PHP but can dink around with Perl. I also use ASP for my IIS
customers. But I know other webmasters who use mainly Perl. Others are strictly
ASP and/or ASP.NET.
No one language is perfect - that's why there are so many of them :-). But
they're all good languages and each one works well in a web environment.
I did find PHP easier to learn than Perl; not that Perl is that hard but I
already had a strong background in both C++ and Java, and PHP is very similar to
both - a no-brainer, to me. But others have found Perl easier. It's all in
what you're used to.
And in a PHP group you're generally going to get PHP recommendations - and I
wouldn't want to see it any other way :-).
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