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February 1st, 2007

Why should I use ASP?
ASP is an easy language to learn if you are a programmer. If you have experience in languages such as Turbo Pascal and C, then you should be able to have very little difficulty with Classic ASP. ASP.NET was designed to be even faster to learn since it has less code to worry about and has more predefined commands. ASP works with a variety of other programming languages such as VBScript, JavaScript, and Perl. ASP is fast and ASP.NET is even faster when it comes to load times

ASP is a very popular language so finding answers to your programming questions or finding tutorials on building various types of Web pages are available free on the Net.
ASP is a flexible and powerful language so your creative possibilities are only limited by your programming skill.

A Few Problems
ASP has had a number of criticisms. We will list some of the more common ones here. Don’t be discouraged by the following list, all programming languages have their own down sides, most of which can be solved by having a good ASP Web Host.

ASP can be expensive. ASP and ASP.NET are both free; they come with Microsoft IIS and therefore cost a Host nothing to put on the server. However, Microsoft Windows and IIS server cost a lot and have licensing fees all of which get passed to you. It is typical to see an ASP plan go for a lot more than a comparable PHP plan. Pricing doesn’t stop there. Although you will find a lot of free tutorials and code snippets (very small pieces of code that add a one or two features), the majority of functions and add-ons you will find will cost you money.

The differences between ASP versions are quite extraordinary. The differences between classic ASP and ASP.NET are many. Most long time classic ASP programmers have to spend some time learning the new functionality of the .NET framework and the new functions involved in producing quality ASP.NET pages. A few such programmers have decided just to stick with the classic version to avoid the bother of relearning.

Classic ASP is no longer being supported by Microsoft. When Microsoft released ASP.NET they have decided to no longer add functionality to Classic ASP. If you are just starting when it comes to programming it would be advantageous to learn ASP.NET instead of Classic ASP. ASP.NET will continue to be updated by Microsoft.

The predominant developing environment for ASP is Microsoft Windows (various flavors the main one being Windows Web Server 2003) and IIS (Web Server software to interface with the Internet). Although reports are showing that Microsoft is doing an excellent job keeping vulnerabilities in check, security will be an issue.

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