<div dir="ltr">Just for the record, I read the Google line just like John did. Still, all that to say, I am still sorry to not have contributed to a better answer.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div><b><br>
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rebuke and encourage - with great patience and careful instruction.</i>" - 2Timothy 4:2</div></div></div>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 12:25 PM, Katherine Villyard <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:villyard@gmail.com" target="_blank">villyard@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 12:03 PM, Jim Kinney <<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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</div><div class="im">> PHP and ASP are totally different philosophies of reaching the same end<br>
> goal. There are no shortcuts. Just jump in and do it. For happy syntax<br>
> coloring, any modern version of vim, emacs will do it from cli. Want a gui?<br>
> Look at bluefish. It's specifically for web coding.<br>
<br>
</div>I think bluefish is what I used ages ago. I liked it.<br>
<br>
I don't know that I'd say they're totally different, in that they're<br>
both interpreted web languages that often interact heavily with<br>
databases. The languages are different, but they're doing very<br>
similar things. I personally found the learning curve from ASP to PHP<br>
to be very shallow for that reason.<br>
<br>
Where they're different is that, yes, ASP/MS SQL/Visual Studio are<br>
this giant monolith of Proprietary What You Use, and PHP/MySQL is not,<br>
since it's open source. This makes it hard to tell whether your<br>
friend is looking for a monolithic What You Use or for specific (but<br>
unspecified) feature sets. For the former, there is no such thing,<br>
and for the latter, I'm probably not the person to ask. :)<br>
<div class="im"><br>
Katherine<br>
<br>
"Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let the pain<br>
make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take<br>
pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still<br>
believe it to be a beautiful place."<br>
</div>--Kurt Vonnegut<br>
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