Now that Perl is losing its popularity, which one the these languages will be the next to go: PHP or ASP?
Which one of them do you like best? and why?
darrylpatterson 0 Light Poster
MoonTraveller 2 Newbie Poster
PHP is open source and has a massive community supporting and developing it. It is the obvious choice for anyone choosing a server side language.
Perl has a small community, but it is a strong community. They have regular meetings - social and technical - they have an excellent glocal repository of modules and scripts http://www.cpan.org and the language is tried and tested. It is still alive and kicking!
drjohn 56 Posting Pro in Training
it's been php as the main web programming language for about ten years now - where have you been? ;)
darkagn 315 Veteran Poster Featured Poster
There are other options too, Ruby on Rails is hugely popular for example.
BTW if you ask such a question ("Do you like PHP or ASP better?") in a PHP forum, you are likely to get a fairly biased answer :P
cwarn23 387 Occupation: Genius Team Colleague Featured Poster
I prefer php as asp is so overly complex and poorly designed. Asp reminds me too much of Basic and as I am a Fop believer (Function Oriented Programming) I much prefer php.
almostbob 866 Retired: passive income ROCKS
.asp will be preferred by those unlucky few with windows servers, a proprietary Microsoft product with all the bugs holes and illogicalities that implies
for the 90% on other than windows hosts there is .php
why pay for something where the free one works better
diafol
php - simplicity. asp is sooo ugly.
digital29 -4 Junior Poster in Training
I think PHP will stay with us for a while...
I have also researched on Ruby On Rails and it is definitely the future...but I don`t think that PHP will loose the "fight" too soon
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