Re: What's the latest thinking of the best two or threewebdevelopment languages/environ...

In the end the main one you can go wrong with is Net.Data. It is on it's
way out so I wouldn't touch it if I were you.

.NET will most likely completely change in the next 5 years causing you to
rewrite or suffer not being able to find people wanting to work on "old"
code. Java suffers from a similar fate because there are flavor of the day
frameworks. I guess you could lump PHP in there also.

The main thing I always try to watch out for when evaluating a new language
for web development is be careful of the sugar coating of a first impression
with drag and drop functionalities. Those things are only usually as good
as the first app and then after that maintenance kicks in and out goes the
drag and drop.

Out of all of them .NET probably has the best congruentness (new word?)
because a single vendor gives you all layers of the stack in proprietary
format. It will be interesting to see what comes out of Sun now that they
own MySQL.

Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com


On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 3:40 PM, Dave Odom <Dave.Odom@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Mike,

I haven't made up my mind yet, but the final list of contenders are (in no
particular order):

Java
.NET
PHP
Net.Data

But, even though I'm leaning toward PHP or Net.Data, simply because of time
to productivity and lack of complexity in what it takes to develop, I'm also
aware these may not be a good long term strategy. But, what I'm needing to
do is a small app and then perhaps move it to a better environment, at some
point,before it grows too big. Your thoughts?

Thanks,

Dave