Subj : Re: A big project
To   : comp.programming
From : Aggro
Date : Thu Sep 15 2005 08:18 pm

mike.novecento@gmail.com wrote:

> My aim is SPEED OF DEVELOPMENT, LOW TIME TO LEARN THE TECHNOLOGY and
> APPLICATION STRENGHT (to security and to scalability issues).

I learned the basics of PHP within a week. It took me about a month to 
make online game engine with map editors and such, while still learning. 
    At the work, we mostly use only PHP and C++.

> Could you tell me what do you think of these 3 technologies for my
> needs. I am tempted by Ruby, but lots of people says it is not mature
> enough. Php, they say is not so secure and robust. ASP.NET I need 2
> years of study and 4000 pages, for doing an hello world (ok I am
> overestimating :-)).

Mostly the security of web application depends on the skills of the 
programmer. If PHP has a security bug, they will propably fix it and in 
common Linux environment you can fix it by issuing few update commands. 
So I wouldn't say that PHP has security issues.

I would select PHP, but I have no experience in ASP or Ruby so that does 
affect to my answer. Then again, we have done many succesfull projects 
with PHP at the work, without any problems related to the language 
itself. PHP also has one of the best manuals I have seen, on the net.

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