Re: FN-FORUM: What's the best development platform for creating Web 2.0 business applications?

date posted 20th November 2007 12:08



Gary Short wrote:
> Hello Carrie,
>
> On 19 Nov 2007 22:55:51 -0000, Carrie wrote
>
>> Gary Short wrote:
>>
>>> Ah cool, so not based on the current product set then?
>>>
>> No I have done some work with .NET and C# a couple of years ago,
>> but I wasn't very impressed - better yes - but still rather
>> emcumbered, and obfusticated.
>>
>
> Seriously? You feel C# and the .Net framework are more "encumbered
> and "obfuscated" than PHP?
>
>
I'd have to say that is an accurate statement. I've only done a few big
projects in PHP but I spent years running development at a .Net shop and
honestly the PHP does more in fewer lines of code. It's maybe not
totally self-explanatory, but it is more productive.

I would say that you can write more solid code in C# certainly and the
way ASP.net works projects is clean and easy to use, but it's much
slower to develop with than PHP and I would certainly choose the latter
for a quick and dirty job.