Thread: PHP or ASP.NET
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Old 04-15-2008, 08:11 AM  
okok
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A couple of posters have stated things along the lines of "ASP.NET is a joke. PHP is awesome."

May I ask you to qualify those statements? Coming from a Perl background, I appreciate PHP's syntax, ease of use, and the ability to get functional prototypes out quickly. Nice, but those are my main reasons for doing toy development with it, and I would not base a business decision on that. Hell, if those were the only factors, I'd be advocating web apps in Scheme :D.

Plenty of mainstream companies are pushing tons of traffic through web apps that use ASP.NET. It can't be so absolutely bad, or it would be a no-brainer for the folks that have to make the decisions, and ASP.NET would die a quick death.

The only arguments I've heard so far that have merit are related to expense. If you don't have the budget for a proprietary platform, then it's easy to cross ASP.NET off your list.
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