OK, but this isn't a "trickshot" contest where people skew behavior or use packaged West Wind functionality to advantage their cause. We're comparing readability, which means you need to see the code.
All I'm saying is that people who want to exercise "choice" can look at PHP without having to learn all of LAMP, which I've been told by several was their understanding. I'm saying the PHP language is easily familiar and the $ signs on the front of variables is not that different from "m." . If people do take a look and still move to NET, their decision is as strong as can be.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
