New to programming

[SeaHag]

What is this "ASP, and VBscripting.?

[chrismitchell]

ASP is Active Server Pages.. It is a way of making a Dynamic Website (among other things - thats what I use it for).. It is a very good programming language. :)

[filburt1]

VB script is really crappy VB. It's sorta a competitor to Javascript. It's also an easy way to distribute viruses. :mad:

[denniswrenn]

ASP/VBScript sucks.....

You must use a MS server, and if you use *nix you're out of luck, unless you use OpenASP, or Chilli!ASP or something, but those aren't very good from what I hear...


PHP is soooooooo much better than ASP.

[filburt1]

JSP. :)

[chrismitchell]

JSP is extremely cool... though I am too thick to understand it... Duh.... I just about comprehend ASP and JavaScript... I am not really a coder.. I leave that to other people. :)

[filburt1]

JSP is "better" (notice the quotes, people, before flaming me) because it uses compiled code, whereas Perl is interpreted.

[denniswrenn]

I think I'll agree with that. I have never used JSP, but I don't like Perl much....


Are you saying you have to compile a JSP before using it?

[filburt1]

No, the JSP is "compiled" to HTML using a JIT (just in time) compiler. The Java classes doing dirty work behind the scenes are compiled even before you start the server.

[chrismitchell]

A good friend of mine is a JSP coder.. he loves it.. he prefers it to ASP because it is more stable over a large number of users.

I would love to try to learn it though I think that it would be too damn hard! :(

[filburt1]

If you know Java, it's easy. And if you don't but you know C++, learn Java and then JSP. If you don't even know C++, then get out of my sight. :D

[Ianpbaker]

although you may think ASP is ****e, sill earns me £30 + an hour :D

[denniswrenn]

:eek: :eek: :eek:

[chrismitchell]

I like ASP. :)

[parksie]

I will agree on the JSP bit - it *is* cool.

It's basically like ASP/PHP in that the pages consist of layout and segments of code. My dad's been doing some J2EE stuff with them. I can see how HotSpot can REALLY speed up some of the work with these so in some cases they would actually whip anything except for a CGI program written in assembler :D