How To Choose A Language For Web Application Development?

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While doing Custom Web Application Development, the first question is always about which programming language to select.

The web programmer has to be very careful while making a selection of the language. The framework should be such that it suits the financial capacity of the client, the ability of the language technically and also considering the overall requirement of the application to be developed. Certain things which should be considered while choosing a language by a web developer are what new things he/she needs to learn about the language and how to plan the learning, what toolset, libraries and frameworks support the programming language, and what are the plans for building the application.

ASP.NET and PHP are the two most extensively used programming languages for web designing and web development. Though nowadays websites can be designed and developed using various scripting languages in addition to these two such as Cold Fusion, Perl, JSP, etc. These web development languages can be specifically divided into two kinds of categories – open source languages and proprietary languages. Some details ...
... about some important and best programming languages have been discussed below to make it easier while taking this decision:

1] PHP Programming Language: PHP language which is developed by some international community of users is an open source web development language. It offers many benefits like it is free open source software; it runs on various platforms such as Linux, UNIX, Windows and Apache; and many others. PHP is considered to be matured language compared to others though it is a younger language than Perl. Some cons involved with this open source language are it lacks event based error handling which means that the workflow of yours can be interrupted if suddenly you jump to a special error handling section and it lacks case sensitivity for the function names.

2] ASP.NET Development Language: ASP.NET is more flexible language comparatively and works properly with both scripting languages like VBScript, Jscript, etc and the compiled ones like VBScript, C, COBOL, etc. Some disadvantages about ASP.NET are it is comparatively slow than the other languages in certain actions and execution of certain operations and secondly it is little complicated in its nature. The framework .NET supports major number of programming languages such as ASP.NET, VB.NET, C#, C++, etc and it also also good support from Microsoft.

3] Perl: It is an open source language which is both powerful as well as matured. Perl has a quality of offering web developers every necessary tool which is needed for the purpose of creating dynamic web pages for a website. Like every other open source language it offers all benefits and it is considered particularly nice option for building single websites quickly, cleanly and elegantly. The drawback with this is it can be complicated unnecessarily with its wide variety of syntaxes.

4] JSP: JAVA Server Pages is an open source scripting language too which is supported by Oracle and so web developers can use JDeveloper to build web pages. This can be accomplished without much knowledge of Java language, it is also extensible and has integrated the Java Server Pages Standard Tag Library [JSTL] expression language and supports all its functions. The only disadvantage with it is there is no XML-complaint version of JSP comments which enforce developers to use client side, HTML/XML style comments.

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