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in thread Another prediction of Perl's demise

Thanks, kiat. Yeah, I've been out of development for a while--doing boring old print work.

After being chided here at the Monastery for not using -T or -w or strict or some other convention, when I first started working with PHP I was taken aback by it's casual approach to such issues. I felt like I was cheating. And oh, those 'for' loops--goofy.

But I think tachyon is right, I need to have a working understanding of PHP. I just hope I don't have to bow to the gods in Redmond and start learning ASP. I might just open up that bait shop I've always wanted.


—Brad
"Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up." G. K. Chesterton
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Re^3: Another prediction of Perl's demise
by kiat (Vicar) on Nov 25, 2004 at 04:21 UTC
    I have never used ASP, and for some reasons, I just don't like it.

    Between ASP and PHP, it's definitely PHP for me (I think friendster is coded in PHP).

    Yah, it's definitely good to know PHP.

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      And is it ASP or VBScript you dislike ;-} Don't confuse the two, that'd be just like thinking CGI=Perl=CGI.

      BTW, we do use ASP, we even use VBScript, mostly for historical reasons. But recently we went crazy and since the ASPs go through a "translator" program anyway we started mangling the language. So we can now use heredocs and q{} and qq{} quoted strings in both VBScript and JavaScript, we can interpolate variables and even expressions in the heredocs, qq{}s and outside scripts with $[ expression ], we can write >>> instead of Response.Write, db->StoredProcedure(... instead of OnErrorRedirect db.StoredProcedure(..., etc. etc. etc. The next candidates for "extensions" are +=, &=, -=, *=, /=, ++ and --. I said, we went crazy ;-)

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        It's not fair for me to say I don't like ASP, because I have never used it. I tend to favour open source technologies more, like Perl, PHP and MySQL, that may be more accurate.
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