[thelist] making the move from php to asp

Ken Schaefer ken at adOpenStatic.com
Fri Apr 16 02:34:08 CDT 2004


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stephen Caudill" <SCaudill at municode.com>
Subject: RE: [thelist] making the move from php to asp


--------------- Brian Cummiskey wrote: --------------- 

: Can anyone offer some links or suggestions?

Some things that are bound to piss you off about ASP/VBScript:

- no ternary operator
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Fair enough.

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- uses () for arrays and functions (something(4)... is it an array,
  is it a function, is it a sub... I dunno)
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There are well established standards for naming in the VB world.

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- hopelessly typeless (why declare a variable if you can't declare
  a type?)
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What's the point of declaring types in a scripted, intepreted environment?
Your compiler isn't going to pick up your errors? All you have is run-time
debugging.

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just a few things that bug me :P

hth,
Stephen
http://www.mechavox.com/
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Well, this is why Microsoft released ASP.Net more than 2 years ago...

I don't understand why anyone would start a new project now utilising
Classic ASP

Cheers
Ken




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