Sayed Mahmood Alaali

Hello,

This fight come again and again when anybody start to talk about the best languages for the web applications. for example PHP lover will say PHP Rule! and ASP.Net fans will say chose it and forget about the others. Same for JAVA fans and so on,..

I am a PHP fan and I like it. It is free and you can code it using any text editor. you can upload it to the server and that’s it. You can also find a lot of PHP free hosting services. If you prefer to pay for a hosting company it will not cost you a lot to get a good PHP hosting company. But I should say that I find Asp.Net and Java interesting too.

But why when we like a programing language we ignore the rest? do we really think that the other programing languages are not good comparing with the one we use? or we are not really ready to change to new programing languages?

I am from the ones who don’t really want to change. I know how to program using PHP and MySql. But I don’t really try to use Ajax in my programs because I find it hard to redesign everything just for the sake of having Ajax enabled program. I ignore it for more than one year and then I relies that I should start thinking about it. You can’t hide your face one the ground and think that nobody can attack you. Because of that I plan to redesign my programing style to add some Ajax features here and there.

I used Asp.Net once when I had to do my project for one of the lectures. I try to encourage the lecturer to use the FREE PHP but he said: everyone want ASP.NET programs now and you should learn a bit about it. It wasn’t really ba. I just have to learn how to use Visual Studio which mad something take more than 5 minutes when you can make it in 2 and also make something take 30minutes done in 5 minutes. I have to forget also about coding everything and I start to learn how to use the Tools which Microsoft Upgrade one time per two or three years and you should learn it from the beginning! but it is okay to learn how to use it and program ASP.Net using C#.

I just finish my Project for one of the lectures that we should use Java as a programing language. I should use Java and Eclipse and Google Web ToolKit to produce a web Ajax enabled application. It is a great opportunity to use all of these for the first time! But I survived! yes I do it with a headache on my head at the end. Yet, I don’t do a perfect job because I don’t really like using something for the first time and it make you make some simple jobs in more than 30 minutes! when you can do it in 10-15 minutes by start coding! Also I hate the JAVA compiling thing. and the Java engine.It took a lot of my laptop resources to just run these!

But do you know! I think the problem is not in these programing languages, The problem within ourself. we don’t like to change and we like the way we are doing the job now. what about you? do you have a story to tell about changing in life?