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Scripted vs Object-Oriented

All good point guys but this issue allot more complex, when it comes to which language is better. I think Microsoft's mistake porting ASP and VBScript completely to ASP.NET and objects is a case in point. I found Microsoft's ASP with VBScript (much like PHP) to be very fast, flexible, fairly secure. I was able tobuild really complex and large as well as very simple web applications with all the managed code structures and systems I needed fairly quickly. No compiling....no struggles with setup and code management like with .NET now. When they moved everything to .NET and object-oriented structures, with compiling, and complex code-behind junk, it actually took twice the code and twice the braincells to do a simple web page data query......very bad design!

Microsoft like so many other companies designing these complex languages have left a whole realm of web developers behind, simply because they make things so complex. As your applications reach enterprise level, sure, object-oriented is the way to go. But the world is quickly becoming "webbified", meaning, lite and portable and consumable web data using XHTML and XSLT is going to be the way to develop. All these heavy OOP languages atre simply SLOOOOOWWWWING down the process. I men, in ASP.NET, to build a simple html web site, you have to open Visual Studio.NET, create a whole web solution, project, a web application folder running in IIS, then navigate ADO and a whole host of controls just to spit out the word "Hello WOrld!" from a simple database table. Not good.....but.....again, as we build larger and larger applications, that language has its place. I guess it comes down to fast, open, easy to use Scripting or heavy, secure, large and complex applications. I guess the evolution of the web will decide....but I see some backlash against .NET and JAVA coming....

Posted by: wildranger   Posted on: 05/13/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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