From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Oct 24 4:16:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from jake.akitanet.co.uk (jake.akitanet.co.uk [212.1.130.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D933E37B479 for ; Tue, 24 Oct 2000 04:16:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dsl-212-135-208-194.dsl.easynet.co.uk ([212.135.208.194] helo=foo.akitanet.co.uk) by jake.akitanet.co.uk with smtp (Exim 3.13 #3) id 13o20j-000EzA-00; Tue, 24 Oct 2000 12:12:53 +0100 From: Paul Robinson Organization: Akita Ltd. To: "Forrest W. Christian" , Jim Weeks Subject: Re: Best alternative to asp Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 12:16:13 +0100 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.1.94] Content-Type: text/plain Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <0010241216130C.00286@foo.akitanet.co.uk> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, Forrest W. Christian wrote: > (The following code is not tested and I realize it is also not as small as > it could be) And I'm not a vbasic programmer... You must remember that ASP on IIS permits two different languages - VBscript and Jscript. What you call "traditional" ASP is an example of VBscript, but whenever I coded in ASP I used Jscript which is what you refer to as "Perl" but in actual fact has far, far, far more in common with javascript that perl. The language used can be specified at the top of the page. Personally though, I agree with other posters in that PHP is a more suitable language. Combined with Zeus it's a great deal faster, easier to code in, isn't as brain-dead and is more functional, in addition to being available for free for a large number of platforms. ASP is for people who buy the M$ line every time. We aren't members of that set. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message