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ianb 
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Posted: 28 April 2005 at 7:36am |
Hi,
I wanted some advice from you all please (impartial). I'm going to get to grips with a hard coding (being using GUI tools like DMW) and would like to know which avenue to take ASP or PHP? I know PHP is open source etc and in the future i'm sure i will use both but for now if i'm going to concentrate on one, which??
And any really good books to suggest?? although not to important cause there's some ideal and good advice from people on amazon.
So any advice? It's not about a particular job i'm doing just personally want to advance on one (specialise). Oh, and can someone tell me if it's ASP should i be looking straight at asp.net??
Many Thanks, Ian
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Gullanian
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Posted: 28 April 2005 at 7:50am |
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In my opinion .Net rules over PHP and ASP. Harder to learn though.
Between ASP and PHP, theres lots of fors and against, look on
Google. At the end of the day they can both achieve the same
thing. You will get cheaper hosting with PHP probably however.
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Posted: 28 April 2005 at 9:05am |
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however, if you are used to be programming with VB asp is a hell lot
easier to learn. Also, just to mention there is JSP which is a very
powerful language (can be compared with ASP.NET) and as Cullanian said,
ASP.NET rulez over both :)
To summarize: ASP if you have some experience with VB
PHP if you wanna learn quick and
probably cheaper hosting
ASP.NET if you are willing to get a
good job later ;)
JSP ye should know Java!
good luck
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Posted: 28 April 2005 at 9:07am |
If I were just starting out, I'd go asp.net and then php. Asp, is going nowhere. You won't see it evolve any further while php is just getting into OO.
.net is already there but will be evolving further. The next release - due this year - is supposed to have a lot of code reduction/simplification to enable you to do things with signifiicantly less code. To my mind, that just means there'll be more things you'll have to work-around but for a beginner it should make getting into .net a lot easier.
EDIT: - Hosting that supports JSP's typically costs nore than other language hosting. You need a JVM to run the pages. Shared JVM's are notorious for crashing due to someone else's code. Having your own virtual JVM costs mucho dinero.
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Posted: 28 April 2005 at 9:09am |
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I really like the way .net allows you to have C# code.
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Posted: 28 April 2005 at 9:18am |
 dpyers wrote:
EDIT: - Hosting that supports JSP's typically
costs nore than other language hosting. You need a JVM to run the
pages. Shared JVM's are notorious for crashing due to someone else's
code. Having your own virtual JVM costs mucho dinero. |
Indeed I forgot to mention that 
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Posted: 28 April 2005 at 12:02pm |
Thanks for the quick responses i guess the general consensus then appears to be ASP.NET.
Harder but long term benefits and greater job opportunities, what was the phrase i liked 'ASP's not going anywhere and PHP is still elvolving'.
Thanks for the advice to all just didn't want to waste my time unecessarily learning one to switch to other five minutes later (probably will anyway knowing my luck).
Thanks, Ian
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Posted: 28 April 2005 at 12:42pm |
dpyers wrote:
If I were just starting out, I'd go asp.net and then php.
Asp, is going nowhere. You won't see it evolve any further while
php is just getting into OO.
.net is already there but will be evolving further. The next
release - due this year - is supposed to have a lot of code
reduction/simplification to enable you to do things with signifiicantly
less code. To my mind, that just means there'll be more things you'll
have to work-around but for a beginner it should make getting into .net
a lot easier.
EDIT: - Hosting that supports JSP's typically
costs nore than other language hosting. You need a JVM to run the
pages. Shared JVM's are notorious for crashing due to someone else's
code. Having your own virtual JVM costs mucho dinero. |
And ASP 3.0 is being 'phased out' of future IIS releases so in the next 5 years it may not even be an option
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