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Posted by Oliver Grδtz on 10/13/07 12:34
macca schrieb:
> I know this is a php newsgroup so obviously most people here like
> using php, but I was just wondering what people's opinnions were on
> the most diverse/useful and friendly 'scripting' language was.
If you just search a scripting language for quickly solving small
problems: Use Ruby ;-) Ruby is great for this. A colleague of mine used
it to implement solutions to the challenges on the exercise sheets of a
study group in his computer science studies at the university. He was
the only one to implement solutions with a GUI! Some of the solutions
came complete with sliders to change parameters and diagrams
illustrating the solution. All that in some few hundred lines of Ruby.
If your problems are bigger: Anybody with a C/C++/Java background will
prefer PHP over Python of ASP. When it comes to performance, Python is
out since scalability seems not to be one of the strengths. ASP vs PHP
is a philosophic question. PHP is open source and comes with a great
variety of community-driven extensions and a fun community to help you
with your problems. ASP is closed source and comes with a great variety
of commercial extensions sold at ridiculous prices and consultants
charging by the hour. But after that...
Personally, I dislike Python for its language structure. Magic white
space? Killing apps by changing indentation? No thank you!
OLLi
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