[ale] asp user learning php?

[Andy Borgmann]

Just for the record, I read the Google line just like John did.  Still, all
that to say, I am still sorry to not have contributed to a better answer.

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On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 12:25 PM, Katherine Villyard <villyard at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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