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Re: [PHP3] Help : Newby !!!! From: Richard Lynch (lynch <email protected>)
Date: 01/30/99

At 8:54 PM 1/29/99, Kyle Cordes wrote:
>> It's a fundamental difference between PHP and other things like ASP,
>> Cold Fusion, etc... These are designed to be easy to use and allow
>> anyone to put up a dynamic web page without a lot of programming
>> experience. PHP is a true programming language, albiet one with
>> simple syntax and a short learning curve compared to say Perl. This
>> makes it much more flexible, but not as dummy proof.
>
>In what way is PHP semantically different from ASP?
>
>The biggest gripe with ASP is that most people use the default
>VBScript language, which is somewhat feeble. But the basic idea
>behind ASP is pretty much the same as that behind PHP, same as
>embedded Perl, embedded Tcl, etc.
>
>PHP is, of course, a particularly nice implemention of this idea.

The second biggest gripe is that it's from Micro$loth, it's not open
source, it's expensive, and it only works on Windows.

I guess those could be considered inter-related gripes. Whatever.

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