Hi,im looking into devloping some bots and marketing softwares for myself and wondering what programming languages should i pick up and which one does the job well..i just went through the google api list and it seems that desktop applications(c#) are unable to use the google apis as they can only be used by web languages like asp or php.. thanks
I've worked on both C# and PHP to make BOTS and spiders, and I find C#/VB.NET favourable for browser automation, and PHP favourable for extraction BOTS... I suggest you tinker around with both, and you'll find your own sweet spots...
Not true, if you call an api over the internet the target can't tell what generated the call (unless of course you tell it) The biggest descision for any sw nowadays is do you do a desktop app or a web service. That will limit your choice of language as it's difficult to use some on the desktop (PHP, ASP, PERL) but even then not impossible. However you can develop a web service in almost any language that will run on your server. (perhaps easier in PHP, or ASP but possible in VB any flavor of C ,python etc) Personally I use VB6 for desktop apps and ASP for web services, however I've developed web services in VB6 in the past. This of course limits me to windows hosting. If I were starting out I would use PHP instead of ASP (only because it's more portable) I wish there was a similar choice for desktop portability, that had decent UI capability. I released a trial of something the other day for windows, two of the first four questions, is there a mac version, is there a linux version...
Well I learnt to program in C# and have taken that knowledge to learn PHP myself and I have to say that PHP couldnt really be any simpler for what us guys like to do. I am not saying C# isnt good or wont do what you want but to throw something together real quick PHP is much better (in my opinion anyway)
Go for VB.NET since your goal is not compatibility but getting the work done. VB.NET is easy to learn, a sh*tload of source code available and does the job with least possible lines of code because almost everything is automated within the framework.
If you want to develop desktop application then you should go for either c# or vb.net. Php generally used for web application development.
