One of the reasons I’ve been hesitant about learning PHP is because of my experience with old ASP.  The problem I found with interpreted languages is that they are basically like a bad girlfriend.

“I’m mad at you.  And it’s your problem if you can’t figure out why.”

That’s basically the gist of the bugs you get back from any error that happens in the interpreted languages.  With something like .NET, a vast majority of errors are solved because it is compiled.

Further, the .NET framework solves a ton of problems that PHP has to rebuild from scratch – postbacks, caching, databinding, etc.  Even AJAX is simplified with the .NET Framework.  Learning PHP from .NET is like taking a step back in time.

But the more I delve into ActionScript 3.0 and Flash integration with PHP, the more it seems that I need to bite the bullet and learn this technology and see what it has to offer.