ASP???

[Phadreus]

What is ASP and what is the difference between that and cgi/ perl???
god I feel so lost...

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[Corpsie]

ASP = active server page

it's basically Microsoft's version
of PHP and PERL. You can do the same
thing with them all.

There may be some differences, but
nothing that non-programmers will really
notice.

[Poizon]

I prefer to use PHP, just seems a bit easier for me. I've not worked to much with it, but it isn't all that hard, just a matter of setting everything up correctly.

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[a32bitwhore]

ASP is a powerful tool for working with database and the like. I feel it has better support than php. Most ppl tell me that ASP can't handle large server loads but they haven't been anle to prove it. I personally find ASP easier to code than perl/cgi.

[a32bitwhore]

ASP is a powerful tool for working with database and the like. I feel it has better support than php. Most ppl tell me that ASP can't handle large server loads but they haven't been anle to prove it. I personally find ASP easier to code than perl/cgi.

[Gemini]

Doesn't ASP only run on the NT servers? Blaaaah! Yuck. lol

[Corpsie]

Originally posted by Gemini:
Doesn't ASP only run on the NT servers? Blaaaah! Yuck. lol

It can run on UNIX servers, but since is not native to the *nix clan, it probably isn't as efficient as on an NT server.

(agrees with 'yuck' to nt servers)

[a32bitwhore]

ASP will run on Unix servers with a thirdparty proggie called chiliASP i don't know it's performance ratings though. I think that if yer going to use ASP then you should be running an NT server.

[Scraper]

Personally I prefer perl.

However, perl is an interpreted language, which runs much slower than a compiled cgi script written in C++ (or another compiled language).

And being a cgi script it has to be stored in memory just like a normal program.

ASP is basically a normal html page, with ASP tags inserted into it that get stripped out by an ASP engine before the page is sent to the client.

The ASP tags are interpreted by the ASP engine and generally don't take up as much space in memory as a whole program would.

On a small scale this wouldn't make much difference, however if your cgi scripts are getting called by 1000's of people, you are esentially loading 1000's of copies of the same program into memory...which can slow down the server activity.

Just my 2 cents worth.

[Henrik]

ASP is much programming in Visual Basic. PHP is more like C++. But they are both very good and flexible. Off cource PHP is free, like Linux. You need a NT server for ASP if you want decent performance.

[Crutch]

I'm running my site in asp and let me to you it sucks. Nothing in our industry it really written for NT. Most of the stuff is written in cgi and perl which runs best on linux. I mean, you can run cgi and perl on NT, but you'll have a shit load of headaches....or at least i did. In my opinion, php is the way to go for our industry, since it's easily compatible with pretty much everything. You're not stuck to one OS, especially a shitty one like NT. And that chilisoft module is a pain in the ass to. I don't doubt that php will be the leader in database connectivity language in the future.

I'm actually looking for someone to convert my site from asp to php. Any takers, let me know.

Crutch
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