[EMAIL PROTECTED] said at 19:27 11-6-2002:
>He should really consider writting his apps on a more portable method..
On the web there is no best method. Only the best method for the job and
it's maintainer.
Allthough I fail to see the advantages of a semi-compiled language, which
needs a vast ammount of interfaces to even produce 'Hello world' in an HTML
page, it may be the only language the maintainer is capable of using or
being allowed to use by his employer. In that case, it overrides whatever
advantage another language has.
>For example: If all your apps were written with PHP and MYsql you could
>very easily port them from a MS machine to a Linux machine
Fairly easy. Unless you rely on semaphores. And Linux isn't the best choice
to serve either. BSD's are much more aimed at that, besides being generally
more secure.
Like Jeff already hinted - the worst combination too choose from a security
point of view, is IIS/Win32 - it's the number 1 target and because of the
tight integration into the OS, security problems tend to have a very
serious impact.
>As far as ASP goes, is just Microsofts method of scripting..
ASP is not a scripting language.
ASP is a templating framework, which needs a programming language to
provide logic and output. ASP just translates the environment variables to
an ActiveX interface, which the programming language needs to communicate
with. The result of the logic is than passed back to the ActiveX interface
which then provides this to the ASP templating system and that handles
communication with the webserver.
> Sambar has their own, IBM has their own, etc..
But they all support perl - still - I wouldn't use perl for MySQL
administration - simply because phpMyAdmin is a fantastic package and no
other reason.
I also wouldn't use php, to create an RSS file, simply because the RSS
support in perl is complete and actively being developed.
>But all the guys doing the work would love to see a standard. Sadly, each
>vendor as their own little benefits to using their coding.
Not really - I use different languages for different tasks at work - ok -
at bad days I confuse the words (like undef vs. unset), but it also makes
and keeps my job interesting.
>On 10/Jun/2002 21:49:09, Rodney Richison wrote:
> > A guy on another forum said he needed a Win2k server with IIS. I was
> > geniunely curious as to why. Here's the answer I got. Any comments?
> > ***********************************
> > ASP, XML
The XML comment is pretty bogus. If you want the best XML support, you'd go
for java or C (if you don't mind compiling stuff) or perl. PHP is getting
there, but not quite yet.
Like with HTML, MS has it's own versions of XML-apps, that don't comply to
standards. If one thing should be avoided, it's incompatibilities in XML,
like there are now in HTML.
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