Re: PHP or JSP? That is the question.

At the risk of being violently flamed...

You might consider ASP.NET/C#:
- It is a REAL programming language, like Java
- It's almost as easy-to-use as PHP
- The IDE and "development paradigm" are superb, superb, superb: they
basically borrowed Delphi's IDE (and stole Delphi's architect, Anders
Hjelsberg)
- Deployment is astonishingly simple.

I suspect that there is no faster and easier way to get applications
completed then by using ASP.NET.  The C#-only version of Visual Studio
is only $100, and it's not missing anything that's important to most
people - but you'll also need IIS (e.g., Win XP Pro).  There's also a
stripped-down freeware version, the MS Web Matrix.  IIS costs more than
freeware, but not a whole lot: and is very easy to use and live with.

if (thinking of flaming me)
{
    I also think that PostgreSQL is the best database around;
    I hated MS programming products from VB4 until .NET.  Standard ASP
was/is awful;
}

Good luck!

Al Cohen
www.alcohen.com

Andrew Falanga wrote:

> Hello,
>
> My question pertains to what is the better choice.  I know that, in a
> large part, the answer is probably, "It depends on what you want."
> However, I thought that I would ask the question of the experts before
> sinking money in to a book.
>
> The goal is to create an application, in the form of a web page, that
> links to a postgres database.  The application will ultimately be full
> featured and so on, but at first I just want it running.
>
> So, what I'm wondering is, which platform offers better (more stable,
> ease of use, ease of maintainability, etc.) support for developing such
> an application.  One consideration that has been brought to my attention
> is that PHP is natively supported by Apache and JSP requires a separate
> interpreter (Jakarta or whatever).
>
> Beside this, I'm really just wanting to know (in your oppinions) which
> has better hooks, more functionality (if that's relavent), etc.  Please,
> I'm really not trying to start a "holy" war or something, and I truly
> hope this isn't taken a trolling, I just don't know how to answer these
> questions.
>
> Thanks,
> Andy
>
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