I'm rather confused by the various advanced or "active" web page
methods. Let's see, there's CGI, Perl, Visual Basic Scripts,
JavaScripts and Java, ASP (Active Server Pages), PHP and XML. I'm sure
I've forgotten some. Now these are all just scripting languages,
right? Clearly there are differences. Some are interpretive (Basic,
JavaScript-? (or is it run from the JVM?). I assume that ASP and PHP,
which I believe are server side implementations, require a special code
server to which they interface (meaning they interface a daemon which
provides their functionality).
Is this right, or am I all wet?
What is the difference between PHP and ASP?
I thought ASP was an M$ thing, is it or is it open?
I don't need to code in any of these but I would like to know where they
all fit. Why are there so many? Is the number of ?languages?
increasing or decreasing? Which are the most used?
I know I've asked a lot of questions and I appreciate any assistance.
Thank You, GGK
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