RE: [PHP] Re: PHP or ASP

> teodor > > I'm not saying java isn't a perfectly good solution for > certain things. I > just haven't had any good experiences with it on the web. > I've found that > it is very slow. Keep in mind I'm not really talking about > enterprise type > applications. If you had a very beefy server for your Java > app, you could > probably get it to run pretty fast, but for smaller sized > applications with > limited system resources, java just doesn't hack it. I'm not > trying to > advocate ASP either. It's just the lesser of two evils in my > mind. I'm for > PHP all the way and would never wish ASP on anyone. We've done projects in asp,jsp,php,perl, and cf, on NT & 'nix platforms, to name a few. Here's what experience tells us: 1. The only one with any noticable performance issues is ColdFusion. The rest are all about the same, especially since most of the time is spent waiting on I/O anyway. 2. The only ones that seem to require "beefy" servers are CF, ASP, and PHP-NT. 3. Most of us found that we were constantly refering to the docs for ASP,CF, and PHP. But we could code perl, jsp, and C without opening the docs much. This is probably due to the fact that all of those can be pre-checked (compiled or 'perl -c'), so errors were caught faster. (Yes, yes, I'm sure many of you on this list can code php without referencing the docs. More power to you.) -John