c# or PHP?

[Jason Clinton]

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Charles, Joshua Micah (UMKC-Student) wrote:
| Im faced with a conundrum here.  My job is requiring me to learn some
| sort of server side scripting language for web development.  Were
| flexible on what platform will be used, to a point.  Im planning on
| learning both eventually, but thats a ways in the distance.  My
| question is, which would be better to learn first, c#, or PHP?  Is there
| any chance that in the future c# will make PHP obsolete, especially with
| Mono progressing so well?

Sure, there's a chance. Though, I think that C# is really competing with
JSP in that arena. Large mega-website projects aren't written in PHP
because of the difficulty of managing lots of programmers working on the
same PHP software and also the performance is an issue for sites that
have lots of visitors and limited server resources. JSP and C# have PHP
beat in terms of performance. Lots of people say that C# is the next big
thing but I have also read a few articles on how things like generics
were really poorly implemented in C#. Only time will tell.

BTW, you can use any language for web site scripting as long as it
returns the propper HTTP headers with it. Every main-stream language out
there will have some GPL'd CGI library you can just make calls to in
order to render the proper headers. Just use the language you are most
comfortable with.

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