Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 10/19/06 13:42

Dikkie Dik wrote:
>> 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.

Ah, and Forth is especially easy to customize! I used to love working
with it.

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