Sorry but I just couldn't resist after the all the disccusions you and I had about the necessity of a DDL in the language...

Really all I'm saying in most cases data access is exactly as easy as you want to make it... Just because something takes 2 lines of code to do doesn't mean that those are the two lines of code you actually want to use.

RegEx comes to mind for example <s>...

+++ Rick ---

>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.
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>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.