ASP vs. PHP and Learning curve?

cr*piecorn wrote: Bliss wrote: I personally like ASP better because it looks better. PHP has too many $'s and ?'s and when I look at it my head just starts to hurt for some reason. ASP just has lots of .'s , ()' and %'s, and they're rounded characters, so I like them better for some reason.  thats a dumb argument and you it , you need to judge  a language on how good it works or not .. not by the charactars used .. i used both languages and php is much easier to use .. less code gets more done

Its actually quite a legitimate reason.  Code needs to be easily written, understood, and debugged if required.

If users find it difficult to read a certain language then any or all of these may suffer.

I would like to add my bit, Personally I think that PHP is a better choice than ASP. Some of the advantages of PHP is that you can run it on many webservers, like APACHE, IIS and Xitami. Whereas ASP you are pretty limited to IIS.(You can get an addon to other web servers for ASP, but they are costly, and even then , not officially supported), even if you never use anything else but IIS, the option is there is you need it. Also PHP natively supports many database formats, like MySQL, Postgresql and even MSSQL which makes it very fast to connect

The syntax is somewhat different in php, but then once you have mastered it it is easy enough. Believe me , if I can do it then anyone can.

In saying all of this, I think that ASP has its advantages too, I have seen much better, websites developed in ASP than PHP, for some reason the "FINISHED" product always seems better on ASP than PHP