[ale] asp user learning php?

Katherine Villyard villyard at gmail.com
Fri Mar 8 12:25:32 EST 2013


On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 12:03 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:

> PHP and ASP are totally different philosophies of reaching the same end
> goal. There are no shortcuts. Just jump in and do it. For happy syntax
> coloring, any modern version of vim, emacs will do it from cli. Want a gui?
> Look at bluefish. It's specifically for web coding.

I think bluefish is what I used ages ago.  I liked it.

I don't know that I'd say they're totally different, in that they're
both interpreted web languages that often interact heavily with
databases.  The languages are different, but they're doing very
similar things.  I personally found the learning curve from ASP to PHP
to be very shallow for that reason.

Where they're different is that, yes, ASP/MS SQL/Visual Studio are
this giant monolith of Proprietary What You Use, and PHP/MySQL is not,
since it's open source.  This makes it hard to tell whether your
friend is looking for a monolithic What You Use or for specific (but
unspecified) feature sets.  For the former, there is no such thing,
and for the latter, I'm probably not the person to ask.  :)

Katherine

"Be soft.  Do not let the world make you hard.  Do not let the pain
make you hate.  Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness.  Take
pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still
believe it to be a beautiful place."
--Kurt Vonnegut


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