Comments on: Central Region WebCamp from Microsoft http://rickschummer.com/blog2/2011/06/central-region-webcamp-from-microsoft/ Shedding some light on topics of software development, Visual FoxPro, saving our planet, paying it forward, and anything else I find important enough to share. Sun, 13 Jan 2019 18:50:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 By: Rick Schummer http://rickschummer.com/blog2/2011/06/central-region-webcamp-from-microsoft/comment-page-1/#comment-1254 Rick Schummer Fri, 10 Jun 2011 14:53:33 +0000 http://rickschummer.com/blog2/?p=1244#comment-1254 Thanks for the additional insight Ted. I appreciate the clarification. Thanks for the additional insight Ted. I appreciate the clarification.

]]> By: Ted Roche http://rickschummer.com/blog2/2011/06/central-region-webcamp-from-microsoft/comment-page-1/#comment-1253 Ted Roche Fri, 10 Jun 2011 13:09:57 +0000 http://rickschummer.com/blog2/?p=1244#comment-1253 Rick: Thank you for the frank review. I'm sorry the day was one of such frustrations for you. One point: "The presenter said that PHP was created at the time Microsoft moved from Classic ASP to ASP.NET and that the reason it was created was ASP.NET made it more difficult to develop Web applications initially. " Like you, I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt that they are just mistaken and ill-informed and not trying to rewrite history. But this is far from the truth. PHP was released in 1995, while ASP wasn't out until 1998. ASP was Microsoft's attempt to create a proprietary version of PHP, not the other way around. ASP.NET didn't come until many years later, in 2002. By that time, PHP was running much of the internet. Rick:

Thank you for the frank review. I’m sorry the day was one of such frustrations for you.

One point: “The presenter said that PHP was created at the time Microsoft moved from Classic ASP to ASP.NET and that the reason it was created was ASP.NET made it more difficult to develop Web applications initially. ” Like you, I’m willing to give them the benefit of the doubt that they are just mistaken and ill-informed and not trying to rewrite history.

But this is far from the truth. PHP was released in 1995, while ASP wasn’t out until 1998. ASP was Microsoft’s attempt to create a proprietary version of PHP, not the other way around. ASP.NET didn’t come until many years later, in 2002. By that time, PHP was running much of the internet.

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