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[Mark Ng]

On 06/07/07, Wayne Douglas <wayne at codingvista.com> wrote:
> The other thing I like about ASP.NET is the fact that you would have to
> go out of your way to write crap - or be seriously lazy. The fact that,
> unless you wanted to do some rewriting of the wheel, you are pretty much
> forced to use an MVC approach to writing code, which forces nice,
> modular, loosely coupled, consistent code.

This is equally the case using PHP and a good framework.  Symfony is a
good place to start.

> PHP - what I've seen of it, looks like ASP classic, tags with code in
> the html etc.

That's as much the case as the person who writes code in it.

> Just my (admittedly biased) view.

I'm glad that you see it as biased - I think you're attacking a
technology you have limited experience with (not that PHP doesn't its
flaws - they're just different from the ones you describe).

Mark