Posted by Csaba Gabor on 09/03/07 16:13

On Sep 3, 5:26 pm, gosha bine <stereof...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 03.09.2007 16:55 Csaba Gabor wrote:
....
> > My objections against .NET are
> > (1) Bloat - the thing is huge, last time I looked, not to mention that
> > my Win XP configuration needed to change simply as a result of
> > installing it.
>
> I'm wondering why you decided to wrote this in php. WSH + jscript or
> vbscript seems to be the "platform of choice" for COM-based scripting.

It's true that those are the platforms of choice, and that's not
surprising. They are Microsoft products that specifically tried to
get people to use those technologies, and they had support for it from
pretty much the beginning. Furthermore, they are quite stable
(especially since development on them has stopped). So they've got
native support, stability, and user base going for them. Not
surprising at all. Plus, the vbscript newsgroups are some of the best
on the block.

Nevertheless, I find PHP much friendlier to use. It's got a far
larger assortment of functions for string, array, and regExp
manipulation, and perhaps most importantly, it is MUCH faster. Almost
everything that you can do in COM, you can do with the COM support
that PHP has. To such an extent that I can write native PHP, full
blown GUI apps, with no third party requirements beyond that of having
PHP (but not PHP-GTK) on a standard windows environment.

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