Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 05/17/06 00:59

Andy Jeffries wrote:
> On Tue, 16 May 2006 16:57:20 -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
>
>>While I think learning PHP in a weekend is a bit optimistic, you can get a
>>good feel for the language in that time and be able to write some simple
>>scripts.
>
>
> Are you telling me that you couldn't sit down with a couple of books, a PC
> and a spare weekend (without kids/wife/other pressures) and be able to
> write decent-enough ASP scripts?
>
> Come on Jerry, I feel a challenge coming on ;-)
>
> Cheers,
>
>
>
> Andy
>

Sure I could. I wouldn't even need a weekend. I've been writing ASP scripts
for about 4 years :-).

Seriously - yes, you can get the syntax down easily in a weekend. But it takes
a few more days to sort out all the functions, system-provided arrays,
constants, tips and tricks, etc. to get it done. If you could become that
proficient in a weekend, we wouldn't have so many beginner questions in this
group :-). But it's not *quite* that simple, and sometimes it can be hard to
find the correct doc.

And BTW - if I didn't know ASP, I could pick up the syntax in a weekend. But I
couldn't become really decently proficient in under a week or so.

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