...unless you know you will be the only one always working on it.
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| If you learn, say ASP well enough, then you can look at scripts written in PHP, CGI-Perl, etc., and
| then create the same functionality with ASP/VBScript.
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| Personally I think it is a bad idea and will lead to problem down the road it you use multiple
| server-side technologies in a web site, unless you know you will be the only one always working on
| it.
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| > I think as a web developer you should be able to use virtually anything.
| > Luckily I'm not very proficient at any particular language so I can get by
| > in all without big prejudice.
| > I will say this: <imho> asp/ vbscript is about as easy to look at and
| > understand as it gets. FrontPage tends to leave it alone and it's pretty
| > easy to modify preexisting applications written in it.</imho>
| > on the other hand there is sooooo much free php stuff out there that you're
| > probably going to wind up using some of it at some time or another. Lets
| > say you've got a client with a car lot and not a ton of money to spend. you
| > hunt through hotscripts to look for a place to start, etc. and there is a
| > php app that looks like it's pretty close. you're going to use it, or at
| > least you should at least consider it.
| > If you can get a big headstart on a project because there is some free open
| > source script package out there.......
| >
| >
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| > spam.
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| >
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| >
| > | > > This deviates from the original question a bit, but I'm interested in
| > hearing what you folks have to say... as a web developer, why should I use
| > .asp over .php?
| >
| >
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