I have read an article which is actually about the ever popular debate on PHP versus .NET issue. It was actually written by a guy who said that his purpose for writing the article is to help PHP developers who are being harassed by over-exuberant .NET fanatics, have a sort of “self-defense”. He also mentioned some common misconceptions about the comparison of PHP to .NET. I certainly agree with him when he pointed out that you cannot actually compare PHP with .NET, it is like comparing a truck to a road, because PHP is a scripting language and .NET is an application framework, an environment where you can develop and execute an application. Therefore, PHP should not be compared to .NET itself but instead it can be compared to the programming languages that runs on the .NET framework. (more…)