Chapter 19. ASP and ASP.NET
Introduction to ASP
In 1997, Microsoft introduced Active Server Pages (ASP) as a means of competing with then-popular CGI for creating dynamic and scalable Web applications. Because of its relative simplicity and small learning curve, ASP has grown to be one of the top server-based scripting languages used by Web developers. Unlike CGI, which required complex object-oriented programming languages (PERL/C++), ASP used a simple subscript of Visual Basic .NET known as VBScript. Because VBScript closely models the constructs of plain English, it was found to be easy to write and manipulate, giving it a definite advantage over Perl and C++. ...
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