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PHP is somehow a more sane language than classic ASP? They are contemporaries of each other, and both were pretty popular in their day. PHP has continued, while

by tghw 17y ago

PHP is somehow a more sane language than classic ASP? They are contemporaries of each other, and both were pretty popular in their day. PHP has continued, while ASP has been replaced by something significantly better than either. P.S. If the company you're applying to is upset by you having worked in a proprietary language, they're hiring for the wrong things.

mseebach 17y ago
> If the company you're applying to is upset by you having worked in a proprietary language, they're hiring for the wrong things. In a perfect world, sure. But in the real world, the guy with actual experience in the language/framework used gets an interview first. Then the guy with experience in any language/framework the interviewer immediately recognizes as relevant. Then the guy with experience in something so obscure it's not even on Wikipedia (which Wasabi wouldn't be had Joel and Fog Creek not been famous).
- johns 17y ago
  I don't think you quite understand how Wasabi works. Wasabi compiles VBScript (written mostly like normal VBScript with some conventions to ease the work on the compiler) to PHP. At least, that's how it originally worked. Now it compiles the same code to .NET IL which runs on Windows and Mono. They're not writing code in some obscure language. If there's some company out there that doesn't want to hire people capable of writing their own compilers to more easily add cross-platform support to their software the guys at Fog Creek aren't going to want to work there anyway.
  - mseebach 17y ago
    According to Spolsky, Wasabi is backwards compatible with VBScript, but "we like closures, active records, lambdas, embedded SQL a la LINQ, etc. etc. and so those are the kinds of features we put into Wasabi." If they'd been working in vanilla VBScript in 2010, it'd be even more insane, and also, I think Joel would have some serious problems holding on to employees. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/09/01b.html http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/09/01b.html

by tghw 17y ago

mseebach 17y ago

> If the company you're applying to is upset by you having worked in a proprietary language, they're hiring for the wrong things. In a perfect world, sure. But in the real world, the guy with actual experience in the language/framework used gets an interview first. Then the guy with experience in any language/framework the interviewer immediately recognizes as relevant. Then the guy with experience in something so obscure it's not even on Wikipedia (which Wasabi wouldn't be had Joel and Fog Creek not been famous).

johns 17y ago
I don't think you quite understand how Wasabi works. Wasabi compiles VBScript (written mostly like normal VBScript with some conventions to ease the work on the compiler) to PHP. At least, that's how it originally worked. Now it compiles the same code to .NET IL which runs on Windows and Mono. They're not writing code in some obscure language. If there's some company out there that doesn't want to hire people capable of writing their own compilers to more easily add cross-platform support to their software the guys at Fog Creek aren't going to want to work there anyway.
- mseebach 17y ago
  According to Spolsky, Wasabi is backwards compatible with VBScript, but "we like closures, active records, lambdas, embedded SQL a la LINQ, etc. etc. and so those are the kinds of features we put into Wasabi." If they'd been working in vanilla VBScript in 2010, it'd be even more insane, and also, I think Joel would have some serious problems holding on to employees. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/09/01b.html http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/09/01b.html