Having a background in both of them for few years I could say the same thing about ASP.

__________________
:. Web Design & Development Web Design Ireland
:. Search Engines Optimization Search Engines Optimization
:. Directory Submission Directory Submission
:. News & Press Release Ireland GiveItSocks.com
:. Used Cars Ireland, Car Parts & Car Audio Cars For Sale, Car Parts & Accessories
:. I Have 2 Find It Directory SEF Directory

I wasn't saying ASP isn't.

__________________
My New Site/Blog | Check your page for broken links/images/scripts

VBScript only has one datatype - type variant (but has several sub-datatypes). Even still, how would you declare a variable without 'Dim'?
var1 = new Variant?
I guess it could have been do-able but I like the fact that there is something there to help declare variables.

I suppose I would rather:
- No keyword at all.
- or something more representative of its function like var varName = 'value';

PHP is the better language - on a boring day, I'd go so far as to say it's the only one that deserves the title "language". Problem is that that really only goes for PHP5; PHP3 and PHP4 were really just the unix equivalent to ASP, and as to the pre-PHP3 stuff, it was pretty much just m4.

Put it this way - I took this job to get away from ASP, .NET and VBscript. Yes, you can write maintainable code in both, but VBscript is like Perl without the positive points; it's too damn easy to write bad and unmaintainable code in it. On top of which are all the automated tools that just lump huge blots of computer-written (and damn near computer-readable-only) code into projects.

And on top of that there's the point that ASP usually goes along with MSSQL...

Neither, please.

Both are impressively unpleasant. ASP.NET isn't so bad, but classic ASP is really dreadful, as is PHP.

__________________
Blog | FindMeATune.com - Mysterious generator of money | politicsInIreland.com

<3 Ruby :P

Ruby Programming Language


Start coding : try ruby! (in your browser)

I'm enjoying doing a bit of Ruby at the moment but I'm serious thinking of dumping it all and learning J2EE.

__________________
Web Design | Flash Development | Property | Irish Fitness Forum

Ah, it was only a matter of time before someone brought up Ruby (on rails).
What I'd be worried about is spending time learning a language that I wouldn't use much or that was hard to deploy because hosting environments didn't support it. Though more and more hosting services support Python/Ruby now

Meh. If you're heading towards J2EE, you're heading towards a whole other realm outside scripting languages anyway.



ps. Java sucks. So does C++. Why we're not all using objective-C I'll never fully understand...