[thelist] ASP advantages and disadvantages

Jason Handby jasonh at pavilion.co.uk
Fri Feb 7 08:17:11 CST 2003


> Leaving out the marketing blurb and the "Linux" is better stuff, what
> are the sound reasons for going with ASP and the bad things about ASP.

ASP is dead easy. VBScript syntax is pretty simple. You can use languages
other than VBScript if you prefer -- Javascript is also supplied, and you
can also install other 3rd-party scripting languages if you want to. For
example, I've used ActivePerl (
http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl/ ) and IIRC you can also get
Python for ASP.

Accessing databases using ADO is very easy. Whereas in PHP different
databases have different APIs, with ASP/ADO you use the same objects and
methods for all databases; changing database is (in theory) as simple as
changing the connection string.

Disadvantages: it's not cross-platform (although there are 3rd-party
solutions for other platforms, e.g. http://www.chilisoft.com/ ). You have to
run IIS, which some people aren't comfortable with. It's Microsoft and
therefore evil :-)



Jason




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