September 2000
Intermediate to advanced
368 pages
10h 6m
English
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Chapter 2. Choosing a Server-Side Scripting Language
When creating ASP pages, developers have a number of scripting languages to choose from. The most frequently used server-side scripting language is VBScript, but ASP is not limited to VBScript alone. In fact, any ActiveX scripting engine can be used as the scripting language for ASP. Microsoft provides two ActiveX scripting engines: VBScript and JScript. PerlScript and Python are two additional server-side scripting languages that can be used in an ASP page.
This chapter introduces these rarely used scripting languages, demonstrating how to accomplish some common ASP tasks. This chapter is not a language reference or tutorial. Extensive online resources and reference books covering the details of these scripting languages already exist.
The Popularity of VBScript
If you’ve read many other Active Server Pages books or are a regular at any of the large ASP resource sites on the Internet, you’ve no doubt noticed that the vast majority of code examples use VBScript as the server-side scripting language. In fact, this book uses VBScript for its code examples. I believe the reason that VBScript is used so frequently in code examples is that a large number of ASP developers were previous Visual Basic developers. Also, a good number of beginning ASP developers are web developers with extensive HTML skills but few programming skills. VBScript is relatively easy to learn and understand, especially for those who are new to programming.
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