> Very, very good question, with a quick answer, though > not a simple one: .NET helps you code faster. >
> Here's why: > ASP.NET consists of classes for most everything needed > to develop web applications, so the web interface > becomes a set of objects that can be manipulated on > the server. Also, state management is handled > automatically by the web server, so you don't _have_ > to mess around with cookies if you don't want to. Other languages and platforms have these. Perl for one, java for another. Probably PHP, but I'm not up on what PEAR has. Probably perl is king here. -- Joey Kelly < Minister of the Gospel | Linux Consultant > http://joeykelly.net "I may have invented it, but Bill made it famous." --- David Bradley, the IBM employee that invented CTRL-ALT-DEL
