ASP anyone?

rgray80

rgray80

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Just a curious question:

Is ASP still used alot? When I first started dabbling into programming my first language was ASP and I thought it was great. Then I started to get familiar with PHP and it was so much more flexible that I dont even use ASP anymore. Is ASP a dying language? Are there still some popularity of using ASP? Alot of websites I goto are PHP based (along with others). Is there still any advantages of using ASP in this time
 
CaldwellYSR

CaldwellYSR

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I hated ASP at first simply because it's a child of MS but I actually kind of like it now. It's not as flexible as PHP but flexibility can many times lead to bad coding. Personally I like the strictly typed languages like ASP.
 
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timnoeat

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I don't think ASP will be hot anymore as many of the ASP sites are now migrated to C#/ASP.Net. If you want to learn, you should just go for ASP.NET.
 
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MarkR

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ASP is dying and a nightmare to maintain. Anything these days should really be developed in .NET or PHP if you want it to have a decent life cycle, maintaining and hosting asp alongside modern apps can be a right pain.
 
chrishirst

chrishirst

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nirvata said:
ASP is a great language but Microsoft doesn't support ASP anymore.
It is better to migrate to ASP.NET
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ASP is not a language, but a framework that supports two languages vBScript and JScript.

And ASP won't be going away for a long while yet. The only way MS could make it go away, would be to remove it completely from IIS and they dare not do that because of the amount of sites that still run on "legacy" ASP. Actually doing that would hit their sales of operating systems to hosting companies who cannot/will not upgrade without loosing customers.
 
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MarkR

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chrishirst said:
ASP is not a language, but a framework that supports two languages vBScript and JScript.

And ASP won't be going away for a long while yet. The only way MS could make it go away, would be to remove it completely from IIS and they dare not do that because of the amount of sites that still run on "legacy" ASP. Actually doing that would hit their sales of operating systems to hosting companies who cannot/will not upgrade without loosing customers.
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It'll end up like IE6, there will be a drive to phase it out because of it's inadequacies, and the fact that most websites built with it were of a time where website security was a virtually non existent.
 
chrishirst

chrishirst

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I've been creating backend systems for ASP for over ten years and never found any "inadequacies" with it, and website security is down to the developers diligence NOT the system it is running on. That's a bit like saying PHP is "insecure" because WordPress or vBulletin are easily "hacked"

I have never had one of my systems "hacked", one of my websites runs on a CMS that I wrote and there are many attacks aimed at it every day. Same with the Snitz Forum, I have run three discussion boards using it and there are far less "holes" in it than vBulletin has.
 
leroy30

leroy30

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I really like ASP.net but then I am a .Net developer so I'm biased.

The real good thing I find with Asp.net is it leverages the .Net framework which is also used by other platforms. What this means is I can program desktop windows programs, windows phone programs, websites, windows games and xbox games all in my favourite VB.net or C#.net language. Of course many of the classes and methods differ between the platforms but the underlying framework is the same and the transition is simple.

Although PHP might be the same I don't know. My experience with PHP is pretty limited.
 
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wfusenamee

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It'll end up like IE6, there will be a drive to phase it out because of it's inadequacies, and the fact that most websites built with it were of a time where website security was a virtually non existent.


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