[AccessD] Learning .Net -- PHP Instead?

Jim Lawrence accessd at shaw.ca
Tue Jun 23 00:05:33 CDT 2009


I thought GOTO and GOSUB functions were a thing of the past. |-P

Jim

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[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Eric Barro
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Subject: Re: [AccessD] Learning .Net -- PHP Instead?

Quite frankly I don't see the addition of a GOTO feature to be something to
look forward to in any programming language. 

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On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Kenneth Ismert <kismert at gmail.com> wrote:

> If you are interested in Web programming, I would suggest PHP. Per 
> unit of effort, I think most VBA programmers would get further with 
> PHP than with ASPX, especially if you are starting out from scratch.
>
<snipped the rest>

> Python or Ruby, and make it a much more expressive language than VBA.
> * There is an enormous ecosystem of open-source libraries, IDEs, CMS 
> sytems, and MVC frameworks to choose from.
> * Projects developed under Windows/IIS should work with little or no 
> changes under Linux/Apache.
>
> PHP Drawbacks:
>
> * PHP is a web-specific language. If you want something 
> general-purpose, use something else.
> * PHP's libraries are extensive and rapidly improving, but it doesn't 
> have the monolithic library integration that .NET enjoys with the CLR.
> * Comprehensive, transparent support for Unicode is still lacking, as 
> it is with most scripting languages. PHP 6 will rectify this.
>
> -Ken
> aseadvisors.com <http://www.databaseadvisors.com>
>

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