yogi:
The only elements of my post directed toward you specifically were the name-calling, the M$ bias stuff, and indirectly the OOP stuff. I tried to make that clear by saying the "you" I was referencing in my post was not you specifically.
You do have a solid point about .Net itegrating everything in one place. PHP is scattered certainly. But, that is the price we pay for free solutions. In the end that has to be one of the better pro-.Net arguments out there. I don't personally agree with it, since I know where to find/already have found every necessary PHP addition and extra I need.
My contention simply summarized is that everything that the original poster, caxibrema, said .Net could do that PHP couldn't was uniformed and wrong. But that doesn't make him an idiot....
I think your points about non-OOP code not scaling effectively are valid and well taken. I'm trying to say that the choice should be up to the end user not the development enviroment. The simplicity of PHP is what has made it so popular - for reference check out Rasmus Lerdorf's interview on SitePoint,
here. For me freedom to choose how to write some code is very important. A one-size fits all approach is not my thing.
My post was intended to go down caxibrema's original post in the order that he listed. And for what it's worth he most certainly did NOT come in and ask for a discussion.
In his opening he announces this clearly (sic):
i have already some good experience with php and iam learnin asp.net now and after a deep study and comparison of these languages i concluded this things:
The only question he asks is one that does little more than prove his own ignorance re: both PHP and .Net (sic):
anyone know the new model of zend engine 2.0? pre-compilated to an intermediated language or still interpreted. And anyone know any benchmark of PHP x asp.net? because i only found an benchmark comparing php with asp.
And he postscripts it all with perhaps the most ludicrously biased reference of all, the asp.net forum's own comparison of PHP and asp.Net.
Where is the harangue against him for his biases? A bias is defined as "An unfair act or policy stemming from prejudice" by dictionary.net. His arguments are the ones unfairly maligning PHP, his arguments are the ones regurgitated from a prejudiced anti-PHP forum.
I and others in the Advanced PHP Theory and Design Forum here at PHPDN may detest M$, true. But when those opinions stem from factual and experiential knowledge passing them off as unfair or prejudiced is a stretch. I know the anti-M$ opinions I have are based on long experience and not simply knee-jerk "I hate M$" biases.
Compare that to my revulsion for the Ottawa Lady Senators. These tools are the saddest bunch of losers to ever embarass a home crowd. I am prejudiced against them. I admit it.
peace