Well, Microsoft is at it again, trying to condemn PHP to a life of mediocrity. They have posted a new piece to their MSDN site on how to migrate from PHP to ASP.NET (of course).

Surprisingly, they do a pretty good job of represting PHP - at least as far as getting the facts right about it. They like to refer to ASP.NET as "robust" quite a bit, but seem to use a lot of negatives ("Unlike PHP...","ASP.NET is different, though...") in referring to the differences between the two. Some of the issues that they addressed are, of course, a part of PHP 5. They also have a comparison table that, surprisingly, has correct information for PHP. Not surprisingly, the PHP side of things looks a little bare. They probably could have expounded on things a bit more.

Overall, this article isn't too far off the mark in comparing PHP and ASP.NET, but there is still a definite bias present. I do find it a bit funny, however, that in the code examples they give near the bottom the "simple, small" ASP.NET code seems to be larger and more complex that its PHP counterpart....hmmm....

Thanks to Harry Fuecks for the tip on this one...