After almost a decade in the industry I can tell you this with every confidence.<div><br></div><div>It is extremely irrelevant what you use. You can even use assembly and C if you want to build a web application.</div><div>
<br></div><div>It boils down to</div><div><ol><li>What you know</li><li>What you&#39;re willing to learn</li><li>What you&#39;re willing to put up with</li><li>The infrastructure available</li></ol><div>You can find mediocre sites using the latest and shiniest technologies and brilliantly crafted code running on old timers.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Having said that I would not personally use ASP myself for current development. Not only is it not being improved any more, its successor <a href="http://ASP.NET">ASP.NET</a> is an improvement in many ways.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I must also correct our friend Clement who has made several sweeping inaccurate statements</div><div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 6:41 PM, Clement Ongera <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:cnongera@gmail.com">cnongera@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div>@W</div>JS has small footprint, lighter and has several frameworks that work with virtually any programming language.<div>
PHP is server side and JS is client side so you can use PHP over ASP or vice versa, but then again;</div></blockquote><div><b>Not true. There is server side javascript (NodeJS). You can also drive ASP usng Javascript or Perl instead of VBScript </b></div>
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<div>PHP loads and runs faster as it runs on its own memory.</div></blockquote><div><b>Extremely debatable. And what do you mean by &quot;its own memory&quot;</b> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div>PHP is open source and you can code it using free stuff.</div></blockquote><div><b>You can code ANYTHING using free stuff - Vi, Emacs, Notepad, Notepad++ etc </b></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div>PHP can run in multiple platforms(windows, unix and linux) and can connect to(Mysql, PostgreSQL...) while ASP runs on windows only and MS-SQL server.</div></blockquote><div><b>Not true. Not only are there Apache modules, there are also cross compilers that can execute ASP as PHP (like Wasabi). It is also not true that ASP can only connect to SQL server. You can connect to any ODBC / OLEDB compatible data source using ASP, which is pretty much all of them </b></div>
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<div><br></div><div>But it all depends on which you are comfortable with.<br><font color="#888888"><br>-- <br>Many Thanks.<br><br>Regards,<br>Clement Ongera.<br>
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