Re: Q:Why would anyone use ssLang other than PHP? Where would advantage be?

On Tuesday 16 October 2001 04:36, Marcus James Christian wrote: > As an avid HTML, Javascript user who added basic PHP stuff and is > slowly going deeper into PHP when I compare PHP to the others ASP, JSP, > CGI, Java, etc... > > I have to ask why would anyone even look to something other than the > beautiful and less arcance PHP in favor of the other horrendous > choices? Well, when you have something *big* it's hard to make it both fast and maintainable in PHP. For those things going partially (i.e. for "backend" stuff) with Java/C++ is good. But for most things PHP should be preferable. No comment about ASP, JSP here. And CGI is an interface standard, not a language :) -- Christian Reiniger LGDC Webmaster (http://lgdc.sunsite.dk/) Pretty cool, the kind of power information technology puts in our hands these days. - Securityfocus on probing 36000000 hosts for known problems in 3 weeks