The fact that you need $100's of third party software to make windows secure doesn't really make it a better choice in my mind.
FreeBSD|LINUX|OpenBSD && PHP are cheaper, faster, and run on cheaper hardware, plus they're easier to administer than windows.
For most web projects, you don't need a full-blown Object Oriented interface, and even if you do want one, Perl and PHP both have fair to moderate object orientation (Ok, so no data hiding, but they do inherritance and modularization.)
Plus, PHP since 4.2 even comes with a nice big Object Library (PEAR) that does XML-RPC, and all of the neat stuff that .NET is supposed to address.
Last edited by GreyLurk at Nov 6 2002, 11:05 AM
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