[PHP] Any point in learning ASP/JSP etc?

2001-08-22 Thread Seb Frost
Or is PHP the be-all and end all? I know its strong points, but what are the WEAK points of PHP? - seb -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail:

Re: [PHP] Any point in learning ASP/JSP etc?

2001-08-22 Thread John Meyer
At 01:10 AM 8/23/01 +0100, you wrote: Or is PHP the be-all and end all? I know its strong points, but what are the WEAK points of PHP? - seb PHP isn't default on Microsoft systems You have to learn a new language for PHP: ASP is basically either VBScript or JScript around some objects. To

RE: [PHP] Any point in learning ASP/JSP etc?

2001-08-22 Thread Seb Frost
]] Sent: 23 August 2001 02:13 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP] Any point in learning ASP/JSP etc? At 01:10 AM 8/23/01 +0100, you wrote: Or is PHP the be-all and end all? I know its strong points, but what are the WEAK points of PHP? - seb PHP isn't default on Microsoft systems You have

RE: [PHP] Any point in learning ASP/JSP etc?

2001-08-22 Thread Jack Dempsey
: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 8:29 PM To: John Meyer; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [PHP] Any point in learning ASP/JSP etc? Ah ha, but am I better off becoming a PHP guru or a jackofalltrades-notverygoodatanyofthem kind of person ;-) Well I've never used scripting of any sort before PHP, just c

RE: [PHP] Any point in learning ASP/JSP etc?

2001-08-22 Thread John Meyer
At 01:29 AM 8/23/01 +0100, you wrote: Ah ha, but am I better off becoming a PHP guru or a jackofalltrades-notverygoodatanyofthem kind of person ;-) I don't know. I've learned both PHP and ASP, and neither of them have decreased the other in terms of learning. The fact is, you are going to

RE: [PHP] Any point in learning ASP/JSP etc?

2001-08-22 Thread Dave
I would say that depends on what platform you wish to market yourself on. Being of *nix mind... PHP works beautifully for virtually all aspects of Web based scripting, and personally i use it for a vast majority of server scripting as well. And if not, it isn't a far cry from Perl syntax and

Re: [PHP] Any point in learning ASP/JSP etc?

2001-08-22 Thread Elias Santiago
I have learned (and used) both PHP and ASP. However, when I was beginning with PHP, I always made it first on ASP then re-implemented on PHP. I always found PHP to be easier, shorter (but more powerful) logic (scripts are shorter than ASP). I guess it has served me well, I have learned to do