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I remember seeing an example using perl where it had xx% less code to do the same thing. And I do agree on the reg exp matching, I had to do a bit of that specifically and ran it in perl, but have since done some in PHP, and I think perl was easier.
 


a.titus1 said:
I remember seeing an example using perl where it had xx% less code to do the same thing. And I do agree on the reg exp matching, I had to do a bit of that specifically and ran it in perl, but have since done some in PHP, and I think perl was easier.

I agree that perl is easier. A big "man I'm dumb" for saying python. Wrong conversation.
 
PHP & MySQL. They were there when I came, offered as a tip by everyone on the net and since I've found some fairly large sites working with that combination, I don't think I'll start learning anything else any time soon...
 
Dave said:
Oh, and i'd like to learn the Darkbasic Pro Language, always been interested in game development, and when I have some money I plan on buying Hands on Darkbasic Pro

Oh yesss...game development, but only when I'm financially stable and have enough play time at my hands. I've always wanted to make my own medieval strategy game, taxes and castles and knights, oh my...
 
Client side is all XHTML/CSS... I tend to stay away from javascript as much as possible to avoid any browser conflicts. Server-side is mostly server-side javascript on ASP pages being that I have my own windows server and it's what I learned on.

For a lot of client's sites, I'm forced to use PHP as they're on Apache servers. I've got no problem with it though, PHP is a great language.
 
ASP.NET, hands down my platform of choice. I used to use more VB.Net, but I'm not doing primarily C#.

.Net is the way to go for large applications. Once you've switched to object oriented, .Net's way of doing things is just cleaner, faster, and easier to work with IMO.
 
I'm coding with PHP but I'd like to learn Ruby.

But for the time being it's PHP + CSS + xHTML + some Flash = my sites
 
Squirrelinabox said:
ASP.NET, hands down my platform of choice. I used to use more VB.Net, but I'm not doing primarily C#.

.Net is the way to go for large applications. Once you've switched to object oriented, .Net's way of doing things is just cleaner, faster, and easier to work with IMO.

Have you done much with PHP for a comparison? Im curious because Im about to start a project using C# and previously only used PHP
 
The advantage i thought i saw with PHP 4 over 5 is that it was more of a true OOP language. anyone know if this holds true? i know the downfall i saw with php 4 was that I couldn't declare access modifiers or data types.
 
I've been using PHP for the last several years. It was really easy to pick up, especially after coming from a C background.
I've been doing a lot of pet projects (non-web) in Java lately, and I'm trying to switch over to Ruby (and RoR) for my larger web-app projects, php for the smaller stuff though, it is still faster for me.
 
I've only been learning PHP for a little while now but so far it's my language of choice. Mainly because I don't know anything else except flash actionscripting.
 
My favorite language is straight-up C, but there's not much call for it in this industry. I've written a few custom log parsers, some CGI executables, and even my own web server in C, but that's about all that would pertain to this kinda stuff.

I really enjoy Perl because the language feels inherently evil to me. It just seems designed to be as slick as possible; too slick for its own good most of the time. I use it whenever I can for any sort of string manipulation or processing (you could write an e-bay scraper in Perl in just a few hours, for instance).

For any other server-side stuff, PHP's the way to go.
 
a.titus1 said:
Have you done much with PHP for a comparison? Im curious because Im about to start a project using C# and previously only used PHP

I haven't done much PHP for awhile (besides messing with Wordpress). There are obviously many differences between .Net and PHP, but most of the concepts are still the same. Just as changing between Java and C++, syntax is really the biggest noticable difference. Programming fundamentals usually don't change much between languages, so most of your PHP knowledge will help you with .Net.

Try to keep your code separate from your markup though. Most PHP is done "inline" next to your html, while .Net you should be placing most (if not all) of your code in the separate "codebehind" file. It's much cleaner.
 
I use Perl/PHP & C#.

For something down & dirty that only I will use, I'll usually do it in perl.

If it's down & dirty and someone else has to use it, I use PHP.

If it's a product I use C#. I just love Visual Studio. I love it so much I just bought a php extension for it. Now I never have to leave VS for any platform development.
 
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