Re: ASP vs. CF

[Brian Bessemer]

> I like doing CF, ASP, and VB, but have a history in a lot.� I play with .NET in my spare time, but I am yet to be impressed.

Similar thoughts here. I do a good deal of CF and ASP, and I've played around with PHP and .NET. Personally, I am not at all impressed with ASP.NET (I couldn't tell you about C# or anything like that, as I have really only played around with ASP.NET and ADO.NET.) Maybe once MS decides exactly what it's supposed to be and let's the rest of the dev community in on the secret, I'll be willing to jump on board, but so far it doesn't seem that it can do anything that others mentioned cannot, and in the little I've played with it, it seems like what it can do takes a bit more code than plain-jane ASP (and there's less documentation readily available for it.)

As far as the differences between ASP and CF... I can only speak on my own experiences. I find CF, in general, is a much quicker environment to develop in, and offers far better debugging options than anything else I've used. I also like the option of coding in script or markup-style tags. I tend to be able to do the same tasks in CF with less code than in ASP, and I have run into a couple situations where I can do something in CF that I cannot in ASP. That being said, ASP definitely seems better at handling just about anything with files... whether you're reading text in from a flat file or moving or copying or deleting directories, sub-directories, etc., I have found ASP incredible.

On the PHP side, I've just started playing around with it. I definitely like it better than ASP.NET, but I'm having some difficulties with a couple of it's 'features.'