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Originally posted by Joel J.
The webmaster for the website of a major RAGE sponsor chose to use ASP, IIS, and Frontpage over other web technologies. His reason for using the aforesaid technologies is they--the technologies--are backed by a major software company, the integration between HTML and script is excellent, and website deployment is incredibly easy.. some companies think ASP is the "professional" way of doing things, not necessarily the most efficient, or the most cost effective way. You should understand the politics involved in any company wide decision. Companies use ASP over other languages for the same reason they use an oracle database over MySQL, or a $500 wireless access point over a $200 one: thats just the way things are.
Please note, however, that my comparisons do not reflect which languages/technologies I think are better. I still believe personal preference should factor into language choices...
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i think this has it just about right as far as why ASP seems like a good choice
personally i would use php over asp (although i know niether much) but if i had a choice i would use perl over anything anyday unless the application specifically required a lot of computationaly intensive tasks that did not deal with text but then web stuff isnt supposed to be cpu intensive... and just in case one can always embed perl in c/c++ and the other way around (perl has dynamic loader of compiled C (and other languages) objects which is very usefull)
the reason for choosing php over asp is the whole opensource thing.. i'm sure microsoft has put quite a bit of work into this whole asp/.net business and that it works very well but it feels nice knowing that if i need help with php, i can seek it from thousands of excellent php users that know everything that there might be there to know and probably encoutered the problems i am facing on their own... these people use the language and want to improve the language... it is as if i'm trying to say that there is sort of a "community" or culture among the open source / free software that proprietary technolgies just dont create