php vs .net

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Making the Choice

Without assuming you've already decided to go with PHP, I'll conclude that its strengths far outweigh its weaknesses. (See the summary in Table 1.) It boils down to price, speed and efficiency, security, cross-platform applicability, and open-source opportunity. Its only weakness is its lack of a pure and perfect OOP implementation; however, this is a minor drawback. Though language constructs do help, ultimately, good coding is a matter of practice, execution, good habits, and discipline.

Table 1

	PHP 4	PHP 5	ASP.NET
Software price	free	free	free
Platform price	free	free	$$
Speed	strong	strong	weak
Efficiency	strong	strong	weak
Security	strong	strong	strong
Platform	strong	strong	weak (IIS only)
Platform	any	any	win32 (IIS only)
Source available	yes	yes	no
Exceptions	no	yes	yes
OOP	weak	strong	strong