Re: PHP Vs ASP

> Depends on how well you know to look Chris. You're correct only if by "how well you know to look" you mean "how to magically tell which parts of the Microsoft documentation are completely wrong and which are correct". I'm not talking about things being undocumented. I'm talking about specific documentation which is wrong, where the sample code is also wrong and has very basic syntax errors which imply it at no point did anyone even attempt to run it, let alone debug it. Fortunately, there are sites like DejaNews.com which can be used to find out how something really works. > Having said that, I guess I believe in using BOTH asp and php, they have > their own advantages. When you are talking about sophisticated > enterprise-level apps, sometimes components are the MOST sensible way to go > if you care about code-maintainability and reuse. This is completely unrelated to anything I wrote, and is a completely separate issue. You can write modular code in PHP, ASP or any othe language/environment in existence. The difference is that ASP limits your choice to COM, which must be used to do anything beyond very basic work ("<%=1+1%>"), requires the use of multiple languages and environments and is slow and hard to debug. > I dislike Java because of the rigmarole attached with coding/debugging etc It's no worse than any other programming environment in that regard. It does have the advantage of avoiding many of the debugging issues you'd face with something equivalent like C++ and it's nice to have something portable. > and PHP doesnt support any component based development yet, of course we There's support for COM, Java, extensions, and object orientation.