[sclug] Why use ASP?

[Neil Haughton]

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>Just out of curiosity, why is ASP bad? I have always used php on linux (which 
>is great!) or more recently java (which is ok). If people at work come to ask 
>me to do stuff in asp, what wonderful excuses are there why it is a bad idea 
>- besides the obvious issue of the crap platform it runs on.?
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Well if you are talking about a Windows shop using Sql Server, IMHO 
there isn't much of an argument against it - within its limitations and 
those of VBScript. It can be slowish (but as a programmer you have some 
control over how slow), but it is easy and quick to develop powerful 
dynamic websites with database support.  ASP.Net with its JIT 
compilation knocks the speed objection on the head. Professionally I use 
Delphi and ASP for web site development, and whilst Delphi produces 
faster code (and I prefer it as a development language to VBScript - 
ughh!), at the end of the day ASP is probably faster to develop with.

We tend to use ASP for the dynamic web pages (presentation), and Delphi 
for the middle tier dealing with databases and so on. It works well. I 
read a book by someone evangelising for using ASP for everything 
including making the tea. Once you read the book it was an obviously 
stupid idea.

Neil Haughton