Now will someone answer the original question for this guy?
Assume this consultant only knows about VBScript and has only used VBScript with ASP. That is the default mind-set of a drone of the Microsoft collective.
Now please compare IIS/ASP/VBScript with lots of off-the-shelf plug in COM objects with Apache/mod_perl/Perl & ePerl
At 09:30 AM 5/18/00 -0400, Joseph P. Discenza wrote:
Paul Rogers [CE] wrote, on Thursday, May 18, 2000 09:11
: > ASP is an environment, pick your language to go with it (I use Perl).
: > So ASP versus Perl is meaningless, but "ASP and Perl" vs
: "mod_perl" is a valid
: > comparison.
:
: au contraire, mon frere. .pl vs .asp is a perfectly valid
: comparison. in
: tests, there is often little difference between .asp's using
: vbscript vs .asp's
: using perlscript or javascript. but usually there are
: significant differences
: between straight .pl's (out-of-process) and .asp's, particularly at high
: concurrent user levels (for obvious reasons).
But then, you're not comparing ASP and Perl; you're either comparing
VBScript & PerlScript (in the ASP environment), or the ASP environment
versus the CGI environment. Which one do you mean to compare?
ASP can use any language for which a scripting engine has been
registered on the server; I believe the default engine can be set
in IIS. ASP ships with VBScript & JScript, but any third party can
write a scripting engine for another language (like ActiveState did
with PerlScript).
CGI can use any language whatsoever, as long as the web server can
figure out how to fire up the "script": it could be Perl, or Python,
or a C (or Fortran, if you're really masochistic) executable.
The point is always to make sure you're comparing apples to apples,
not apples to carts.
Joe
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