Re: Why PHP ?

Why would you want to use such a platform limited language like asp? especially considering it's performace, stability, and capabilities less than php. microsoft repeatedly reinvents a poorer version of the wheel. it's the politics that surround the tech biz that always give MS an edge. Besides... who wants to pay for support for ASP? =) JSP is good from what I've seen, though it still has some growing up to do. Don't waste your time with VB scripting, unless you wanna do some asp, which is unadvised. all of the languages work well, thats not the question at hand. but php seems to be best bet right now. you didn't mention anything about python, now that could be something that might take off in a big way. python is extremely clean, stable, super fast, concise, highly portable and is the textbook example of modulization/object oriented programming. unfortunately i haven't dove into it much yet, but i'm pretty impressed so far. of course i'd still code php over python, but it is something to look at and get your own opinion of. the other languages you mentioned i would stick away from. but you are asking this question in a php list, so you're not gonna get a real unbiased opinion =). i know the MS lackies in the asp lists probably talk a lot of smack about php. tell them to go to hotscriptscom and they can see that maybe there's a lot more people that know php is superior in many ways. there's a handful of asp stuff there (basically everything on the web you can find). but for php there's a few thousand handfuls of code, tutorials, reference, etc. if someone could ever show me some real life reasons where another language is better, i'd be the first to switch. but i think with thousands of minds focusing on developing a kick ass language it will be hard to out-class php any time soon.