[thelist] What is the best programming language for the web?

[kasimir-k]

> Shawn K. Quinn wrote
>> ASP and Cold Fusion that are decisively less so (the former being a
>> Microsoft product, the latter being what an Adobe product by way of
>> Allaire and Macromedia, both of which are Windows-centric and place you
>> at the mercy of proprietary software vendors for licensing).

Judah McAuley scribeva in 28/05/2007 4:16:
> For what its worth, I think that ColdFusion is no more Windows-centric 
> than PHP is *nix-centric...
> 
> ... I'll note that there are competing CFML engines. BlueDragon and Railo

And I'd like to remind that ASP is not that Windows-centric ;-)

There's <http://www.apache-asp.org/> and 
<http://www.sun.com/software/chilisoft/> so you can run ASP on Apache 
and anywhre.

And if you want ASP.NET, have a look at Mono <http://www.mono-project.com/>

.k