From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Oct 24 4:33:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from apollo2.waverider.net.uk (apollo2.waverider.net.uk [212.105.191.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F88937B479 for ; Tue, 24 Oct 2000 04:33:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bugs (bugs.office.waverider.net.uk [212.105.191.50]) by apollo2.waverider.net.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA30144; Tue, 24 Oct 2000 12:26:20 +0100 From: "Andy Cowan" To: "Paul Robinson" , "Forrest W. Christian" , "Jim Weeks" Cc: Subject: RE: Best alternative to asp Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 12:32:43 +0100 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: <0010241216130C.00286@foo.akitanet.co.uk> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.3018.1300 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > 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. > Um, wrong. ASP on IIS permits any number of languages as long as you have a scripting engine to support it. What Forrest calls "tradiational" ASP is VBScript which is by far the most widely used language supported by ASP. What Forrest refers to as Perl *is* PerlScript (not JScript) which has everything in common with Perl, and nothing to do with JScript or JavaScript. > The language used can be specified at the top of the page. As in <%@Language PerlScript%> > > 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. > But if your *customers* are (remember this is freebsd-isp), you might need to think a little bit out of your box. Or do you plan on converting each and every one of them to your way of thinking? A. -- Andy Cowan Managing Director Wave Rider Internet Ltd http://www.waverider.co.uk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message