Charlotte Foust
cfoust at infostatsystems.com
Tue Jun 23 10:02:53 CDT 2009
There are always nostalga buffs out there ... LOL Charlotte -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jim Lawrence Sent: Monday, June 22, 2009 10:06 PM To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' Subject: Re: [AccessD] Learning .Net -- PHP Instead? I thought GOTO and GOSUB functions were a thing of the past. |-P Jim -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Eric Barro Sent: Monday, June 22, 2009 7:17 PM To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' 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. -----Original Message----- 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> > -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com