Re: ASP and PHP

"Benjamin Walling" <bwalling@edentaldirect.com> wrote in message news:20020517203922.60506.qmail@pb1.pair.com... > > ASP cannot short-circuit a boolean expression > ?costing you milliseconds? Who needs this for performance reasons? This short-circuiting is for logic simplification, thus fewer LOC and easier readability/maintainability. > > ASP does not have mult-line comments > So what? Actually, this is a nasty omission when the occasional need arises to comment out long stretches of code. > > ASP doesn't understand external http or ftp resources > You have to use COM for this. I do a lot of stuff with HTTP and FTP. Not exactly straightforward for the everyday web scripter. > > PHP is so much faster! (benchmarks that I've seen on linux/apache -> > > win/iis) > Apples > Oranges. So far, my evaluation (win/iis 5.0 for both) has been > that ASP is faster. Of course, ASP is fast in IIS. Everyone knows why. Apache + PHP simply can't be beat by any other web server/scripting language combo in Windows. Steve (www.stevemagruder.com)