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Blue World posts Lasso vs. PHP 'white paper

updated 12:40 pm EST, Thu March 7, 2002


Blue World has posted a white paper comparing Lasso Professional 5 to PHP 4.1.x. The 56 page report includes detailed coverage of key topics, concluding "Lasso outpaced PHP by over 200% in select benchmark tests comparing performance, specifically when executing class libraries. Lasso also beat PHP on all performance tests on Windows and virtually all tests on Macintosh. In all tests involving database access, Lasso proved the faster of the two."


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  1. MacNN.com Reader

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    03/07, 01:27pm | report spam | Reply |

    PHP Rocks!

    sure you save some time dealing out pages, but who can beat PHP for portability and cost of deployment? It's an open vs. closed standard. For that I'll take PHP/MySQL any day. Psh.

  1. steveston

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    03/07, 01:40pm | report spam | Reply |

    Love Lasso, but...

    I've been using Lasso extensively to build some great web-enabled FileMaker solutions for the past year, but may be forced to give it up since Blueworld offers no database connecter for the database that many of my Mac/FileMaker clients are looking to transition to: OpenBase on Mac OS X.

    Why OpenBase? Besides being an OS X-native SQL db, the compatible ClickConvert utility is a great migration tool from FM to SQL and OpenBase's friendly Mac-like and installation and admin tools beat those of the alternatives: PrimeBase, FrontBase and MySQL. C'mon Blueworld, support a SQL built the Mac way!

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    03/07, 01:48pm | report spam | Reply |

    Uh...

    this report tells me that if I want to deploy on Macintosh, I should use PHP. Lasso Pro was beaten by PHP in some tests....and it's...uh...free.

    Was that the message they wanted to send out?

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    03/07, 02:03pm | report spam | Reply |

    PHP Rocks!

    sure you save some time dealing out pages, but who can beat PHP for portability and cost of deployment? It's an open vs. closed standard. For that I'll take PHP/MySQL any day. Psh.

  1. MacNN.com Reader

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    03/07, 02:04pm | report spam | Reply |

    hmm...

    Hey, leave PHP alone! What did PHP ever do to you? Sweet sweet PHP.

  1. The Pie Man

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    Yep

    PHP is awesome - powerful, fast, efficient. Sorry BlueWorld - I already have a girlfriend, and her name is PHP.

  1. throatmonster

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    03/07, 03:08pm | report spam | Reply |

    Re: PHP Rocks!

    Totally agree!

    I 'grew up' with FileMaker and Lasso. While we were waiting on BlueWorld to come out with Lasso 5, we deployed Apache/PHP/MySQL on Linux. Gawd, I was astounded!

    The first time a co-worker deployed a PHPNuke site, all my years of programming experience were blown out of the water instantly. PHP is a Phat, juicy web programming language. There's a huge base of available classes, functions, and PHP scripts all available. It beats the pants off anything available in pre-written Lasso code, free or not.

    Their assertion that Lasso code is more compact than PHP is UN-true. I've been converting Lasso code to PHP code. 90% of PHP code is tighter; the other 10% is much more complex, but it balances out to the same. And once it's been written once, can you say "Copy, Paste?"

    And, check out iViking.org for FX.php - a filemaker interface class.

    Lasso has finally gotten 'almost as powerful' as PHP in terms of programming language. But from a former Lasso lover, I can tell you there's no compelling reason to go Lasso. Their whitepaper assertion that to get the equivalent functionality of Lasso in PHP it costs all sorts of Zend licensing fees in also un-true. You just don't need them.

    Oh, Lasso still doesn't run on Linux yet. Go fish.

  1. Marcus

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    03/08, 01:02am | report spam | Reply |

    Lasso 5 is great

    Been using Lasso 5 for a few months now and it's fantastic. Don't knock it till you've tried it. I use both PHP and Lasso 5 and prefer Lasso 5. It's got great database tools. Great Error reporting. Yes PHP is faster in some things, but a Pentium 4 is faster than a Mac in some things. Fact is that Lasso 5 holds it's own vs PHP and in many cases is better. Also while PHP is free, you do have to pay for many features in PHP that Lasso 5 has.
    Both are great languages, both have a definite place in the world of web development, and those who accept both and use both will come out on top.
    Best part is that with LassomySQL, I will most likely never code another Filemaker DB again. :D

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    03/08, 02:23am | report spam | Reply |

    Lasso code is ugly

    Who cares if Lasso is a bit faster -- have you ever actually used it before? Blueworld's documentation and support is terrible, especially compared to PHP. And the whole square bracket thing gets really messy when nesting is used. It is very hard to make Lasso code nice and readable. PHP's C-like syntax is way better (though unfortunately there are some Perlisms) than Lasso's tag-based way of doing things. I'll choose PHP any day.

  1. MacNN.com Reader

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    03/08, 08:36am | report spam | Reply |

    Documentation, Squares

    Actually, the documentation for Lasso 5 is 1800 pages of really good stuff.

    Best documentation i've ever seen.

    And look into "LassoScript" if you don't like the square brackets.

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