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It's not like Microsoft's web stack sucks. Obviously C#'s not en vogue, but it's a fine way to put together a website. There's actually some really good stuff in there, and they've had the presentation/code-behind separation in since before people though it was a good idea.

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I can't speak on C# vs Python or C# vs. Lisp, since I haven't coded in either of those languages. I can speak on C# vs. php - I just finished a job with php and started C#. Originally,I thought I loved it because of the library (ie dataset, dataview,gridview), and garbage collection. Then the object orientedness of it all got really, really hard to implement rapidly. I may still use it to write sockets and hwnd stuff for windows (I'm a game dev), but for web stuff, I'll stick with php and maybe learn py.

I have no experience in PHP (nor Python). What makes the two easier (or more rapid) to implement in OO way compare to C#?

I think the tools for .NET makes it better than others.

well at the "planned" level, nothing. At the throwaway level, everything. Things that would take ten seconds in php (like a simple post form to a db) could end up taking 2-3 hours in C#/.NET

| Obviously C#'s not en vogue

Eh, depends on who you talk to. I'd guess it's very much en vogue with web developers who are not so thrilled with the LAMP/OSS stack.

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