26 Dec
2008
26 Dec
'08
7 p.m.
In article <200812261518.44134.pat at computer-refuge.org>,
Patrick Finnegan <pat at computer-refuge.org> writes:
Depends on where you go. If you only go to linux sites and slashdot,
then yeah, PHP might be more dominant there. I wouldn't bet on there
being more PHP-based sites compared to ASP sites, though. Its not like
Microsoft is some small dinky company that just started making a dynamic
web solution.
On Thursday 25 December 2008, Richard wrote:
Well, he didn't say, so his statement sounded overly broad. There was a
time in the infancy of the dynamic web when dynamic web sites were coded
in perl. Specialized tools for this task have long since displaced most
perl usage in this regard. Its not that perl can't do it, its simply
that the other tools are so much easier to use to solve problems for most
people that they don't use perl anymore.
In article
<f4eb766f0812242215gddae341re6920fb1fe5d85d3 at mail.gmail.com>,
"Ethan Dicks" <ethan.dicks at gmail.com> writes:
I'm pretty sure that Ethan was referring to HTML that he has written. Seriously, though, not counting code-generated
HTML (usually
written in Perl, but there are a few exceptions to that), [...]
LOL. Maybe about 10 years ago it was that way. There's
this little thing called ASP/ASP.NET...
It would seriously surprise me if Ethan has ever used that. In fact,
I'm willing to bet that PHP is more popular than ASP. In any case, what sane person runs Windows on a web
server, who has a
choice?
Plenty of sane people do this and it works fine for them. I'm really
tired of the drive-by Microsoft bashing that passes for informed opinion
on this list.
I've used ASP. I really hate VBscript. I'd
rather write CGI programs
in C (which I've done before), which alone isn't much fun.
ASP is 10 years old (hey, its vintage!). Even when ASP was new, you
didn't have to use VBScript. ASP is not CGI and never has been, they are
competing solutions for dynamic web content.
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