Posted by Dikkie Dik on 10/19/06 13:20

> I was doing a little bit of research for work about .net and I happened
> accross some interesting mashups, including IronPython and Phalanger.
>
> I was wondering if anyone here had any thoughts or experience working
> with Phalanger or some other "php.net" implementation.

No. But my former job was as an ASP.NET programmer. Initially, I did not
think it did make any difference, but now I am glad to be back to PHP.
In PHP, you have to do a lot yourself, but you can make it good. In
..NET, a lot is done for you, you can't change it, and it is far too
complex and difficult to work with.

> What was your overall impression?
> Did you try getting it to work with pear?

I hate PEAR. PEAR is just a trashpile of comments that do not compile
and make the code totally unreadable. PEAR is the reason I wrote a
docblock-remover for my editor.

> What other .net technologies did you integrate with?
> Were you ultimately successful in developing your application?
> Do you hate .net with such a passion that you will filter all further
> posts by me?

Nope. Looking at other programming languages and environments is not bad
at all. You can learn a lot from, for instance, LISP, Haskell, Eiffel,
Forth, etc.

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