你需要2种语言的ASP.NET，但只有一种用于PHP / Ruby吗？

Question

I'm interested in wed development and web 2.0 but I'm a real beginner, so I'm reading a lot about the technologies involved. I'm beginning to move towards ASP.NET because of the great free resources for learning.

However, as I begin to work in "Visual Web Developer Express" I notice that I need to understand ASP and C# or VB. Two technologies.

Is this the same for Ruby or PHP. Do you need to learn two languages/technologies to make web applications (not including XHTML/CSS/XML), or do you just learn PHP/Ruby?

Therefore is it quicker (not saying better!) for a beginner to start with PHP/RUBY rather than ASP.NET and C#/VB because you can spend your time learning one rather than two languages?

Answer 1

ASP.NET is not a programming language. It's a server-side technology that supports programming in any .NET language. So you are not forced to learn 2 different languages.

This is just like PHP and Ruby. Both of them can be used to build non-Web based applications. When you are building Web applications with PHP, you are actually using both PHP scripting language and the functionality provided by some kind of framework that helps you specifically build Web applications. The two things are still the same.

The difference is that they are not given separate names.