Hello,
On 07/22/2004 09:26 PM, Raditha Dissanayake wrote:
I would have thought perl and php programmer would want to get together and trash asp or something.
I think you mean, VBScript because ASP itself is not a language but rather a framework for using languages. You can use PHP code in ASP like you can use VBScript and Perl.
Anyway, personally I would not bother to trash ASP or whatever comes from Microsoft because liking it or not many people use it because they trust it better than Open source technologies. Of course we can disagree, but when you trash something that other people trust you often are making it more difficult for them to accept what you defend (PHP, Open source, whatever).
There is a saying that you won't catch flies with vinagre, which means you do not need to trash ASP to demonstrate that PHP is eventually better. You can always tell people the good PHP features and explain why with technical arguments, not highly biased emotional arguments like references to dislikes to everything that Microsoft does (no reasonable MS user bites that).
Anyway, this is just a personal opinion about why some evangelization techniques are counterproductive.
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