Which server sided scripting language.....

[Tim]

Thought I'd pick the groups brains....
About time I learned some server sided scripting - no particular reason as
yet but.....
So can people advise me of the pro's and con's of ASP ASP.NET PHP
PEARL ?
I have seen a lot of available PHP scripts (for bulletin boards etc). I have
experience in FORTRAN ( IV...ok so that was 20 years ago!) Cobol (Ditto)
and BASIC before it was visual ;-).
OOP is relatively new to me in other words.
I get the impression that FrontPage integrates better with ASP, BUT this
requires a WIN server at least and PHP etc may run on multiple platforms.
All advice appreciated.

Tack

PS - does anyone remember programming an SDK8085 in hexadecimal? A
monrobot MK 11 with punch TAPE? A PDP 11/10 in octal?..... all a blur
now....

 

[Steve Easton]

PS - does anyone remember programming an SDK8085 in hexadecimal? A
monrobot MK 11 with punch TAPE? A PDP 11/10 in octal?..... all a blur
now....

IBM mainframe with punchcards for a college course. 77 - 78 iirc
;-)

Next endeavor was writing a random access database program in DOS
on an Apple IIE. Must have gone through half a box of tractor feed printer
paper debugging the program. Then I figured out you could set a trace
command
and it would print the program line numbers on the screen as it ran.

if then else goto
my dear aunt sally.

Also figured out real quick to add program line numbers in increments of 10,
i.e. 110, 120 ,130
so you could go back and insert new lines between them.

As for learning a language, I would recommend asp or php.
Pearl will drive someone nuts <imho>

 

[Tim]

IBM mainframe with punchcards for a college course. 77 - 78 iirc
;-)

You had PUNCH cards!...sheer luxury! Try mark sense cards that smudge
the HB pencil and that you had to erase for the next school project!
My best effort was leaving a single full stop off at the end of a
declaration division in Cobol... ( 1977 as it happens).....the entire 282
following lines of code were therefore invalid and didn't the compiler love
telling me that - 282 time..... Sheesh!

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

If you plan to be hosted on Unix/Linux go with PHP is your best choice.
If Windows, then ASP or ASP.net is your best choices.

--

==============================================
Thomas A. Rowe (Microsoft MVP - FrontPage)
WEBMASTER Resources(tm)

FrontPage Resources, Forums, WebCircle,
MS KB Quick Links, etc.
==============================================

 

[Jimmy]

If you plan to be hosted on Unix/Linux go with PHP is your best choice.
If Windows, then ASP or ASP.net is your best choices.

I find that using a Windows solution limits your host selection quite
a bit. While I prefer to code ASP, that is an issue. Most of the less
expensive and most flexible hosting solutions are unfortunately UNIX.

If you don't mind doing "real code", you might want to go with Perl
instead of PHP. Perl is a very powerful language... PHP is a scripting
language. Admittedly, for a lot of folks it doesn't matter. Perl is
also a very funky language once you get into it, it can frighten some
normal programmers.

As to the old systems, I used to work with someone who started
programming with wires and alligator clips. She pretty much won
most of the "I remember when" discussions.

 

[Tim]

As to the old systems, I used to work with someone who started
programming with wires and alligator clips. She pretty much won
most of the "I remember when" discussions.

woooooo !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I surrender!.....she wins!!!!!!!!


Tack

 

[Tom Gahagan]

Hi Tim.....

If you go with asp.... ( you should probably go with BOTH asp and php <
imho > )

check out.....

www.asp101.com (learning material) there are tons of others as you will
find when you do a goggle.

www.4guysfromrolla.com ( great forum, etc)

www.aspin.com (great source to find stuff)

www.planet-source-code.com ( example code and programs)

Anyway... hope this helps

Tom Gahagan
eThomaston.com

 

[Tim]

Hi Tom
Yep - It helps
Tim

Hi Tim.....

If you go with asp.... ( you should probably go with BOTH asp and php <
imho > )

check out.....

www.asp101.com (learning material) there are tons of others as you will
find when you do a goggle.

www.4guysfromrolla.com ( great forum, etc)

www.aspin.com (great source to find stuff)

www.planet-source-code.com ( example code and programs)

Anyway... hope this helps

Tom Gahagan
eThomaston.com