Posted by windandwaves on 08/26/05 01:36

Safalra wrote:
> windandwaves wrote:
>> I know this is an html group, but I am sure many of you do web
>> development work that goes beyond html.
>>
>> I was wondering what you think works best.
>> - PHP
>> - Java something
>> - .net
>> - Mysql vs SQL vs Postgres (or whatever these databases are called)
>> - etc...
>>
>> I only do php and mysql, but recently someone told me that these are
>> hopelessly out of date compared to, for example, dot.net.
>
> .NET will only run (reliably) on Windows-based servers (there are some
> Linux clones of .NET, but from what my .NET-minded friends tell me
> they rather unreliable). Java (-server pages) has greater support for
> other platforms, and Java is a fairly nice language.
> PHP is a mess of
> a language, but it seems to be the one most people (including me)

Why is it such a mess? As this is all I know I dont really see the mess.

> use. It depends on who you're doing web development for, and whether
> they insist on a certain host. If they do, PHP with MySQL is probably
> the best combination, as most hosts offer a LAMP (Linux, Apache,
> MySQL, PHP) solution.

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