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Re: [PHP3] Help : Newby !!!! From: Phil Harris (wmlph <email protected>)
Date: 01/30/99

There is a open-source, perl-based variant of ASP available, look on CPAN
for Apache::ASP, just sort of evaluating it now, looks OK

Phil
wmlph <email protected>
----- Original Message -----
From: Richard Lynch <lynch <email protected>>
To: Kyle Cordes <Kyle <email protected>>; <php3 <email protected>>
Cc: <ccunning <email protected>>
Sent: 31 January 1999 00:28
Subject: Re: [PHP3] Help : Newby !!!!

>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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>
>
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