I've done php and witango both professionaly and there are pros and cons to each.
I'm an anti MS coder with a strong back ground in C++ and assembly who likes linux/bsd etc so i figured the open sourced php would own any competition before i learned witango. What I have found out is that both are awesome in different ways. For instance, php is neat cause you can get modules for it like GDLib which lets you generate graphs and graphics on the fly from within your program, and php has C syntax which is really nice. A very easy to learn, powerful language with lots of extensions. Witango is really nice because it's very easy to read and edit your source files. Our company makes all kinds of financial etc software for school districts, we have probly about 30 tafs, with an average size of 200k, some as large as 600k. With witango's style of editing environment, it's really easy to find the code you wish to edit, make the change and easily see that what you are doing is the correct thing to do. With PHP, were we to have the equivelant tafs as php files, the levels of nested if's and lack of visual grouping of code thatw itango provides (even with nicely indented code etc) would just be too much to handle. I would have to disagree that going with php saves you alot of trouble since they are both great languages and you already have your code written in tango, you wouldnt have to re-write everything and retest to make sure it works right in php. but ::shrug:: to each their own! (: ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dale Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 29, 2004 12:28 PM Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: New User, with a question! > --- "Walker, Buddy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > My question is actually about R:Tango 2000, and I > > understand from the folks in the office that someone > > here might be able to help... > > > > I would strongly recommend PHP instead of Tango. You > should check out the R:Web Suite and CodeCharge. > > You will save yourself a whole bunch of trouble in the > long run with PHP. > > Just my $0.02..... > > Dale > ==== > > ===== > Dale W. Thomas > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Veteran, USAF, 1972-76 > ===== > "Anything your mind can conceive > and believe, it can achieve." > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail Address AutoComplete - You start. We finish. > http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail > > --- RBASE-L > ================================================ > TO POST A MESSAGE TO ALL MEMBERS: > Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > (Don't use any of these words as your Subject: > INTRO, SUBSCRIBE, UNSUBSCRIBE, SEARCH, > REMOVE, SUSPEND, RESUME, DIGEST, RESEND, HELP) > ================================================ > TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: > Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > In the message SUBJECT, put just one word: INTRO > ================================================ > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: > Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > In the message SUBJECT, put just one word: UNSUBSCRIBE > ================================================ > TO SEARCH ARCHIVES: > Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > In the message SUBJECT, put just one word: SEARCH-n > (where n is the number of days). In the message body, > place any > text to search for. > ================================================ >
