Re: ASP
by "Michael Gerholdt" <gerholdt(at)fredonia.edu>
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Thu, 12 Apr 2001 08:02:28 -0400 |
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"Charlton,
Mark" <Mark.Charlton(at)saint-gobain.com>,
<bryan.westbrook(at)amd.com>,
<hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>,
<woodduck(at)mbay.net> |
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Mark Charlton wrote RE: ASP:
> ASP is a server side scripting language like PHP or to some respect perl.
This is not the case, though most of what Mark wrote is not misleading.
ASP is not a language. It is a scripting environment. The language most
commonly used in ASP is VBScript. Other scripting languages may be used as
well, such as JScript, JavaScript and even perl. Also one may build COM
components using a language such as C++ and access such a component via a
script from an html page. This capability is also part of the ASP
environment.
So you see that Active Server Pages is itself not a language.
That said, writing an ASP page and writing a PHP page are very similar
experiences.
ASP is proprietary to MS IIS but there are some good products that port it
over to other web servers.
And ASP is different from perl/cgi in that instead of using the Common
Gateway Interface, it encounters the web server's native Application
Programming Interface.
And with the introduction of .NET, ASP will be undergoing some significant
changes which will make it a very different critter in some very positive
and powerful ways.
Mike
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