Classic ASPWhat is Classic ASP?
It is a server-side scripting environment that you can use to create and run dynamic, interactive Web server applications. With ASP, you can combine HTML pages, script commands, and COM components to create interactive Web pages and powerful Web-based applications that are easy to develop and modify.
Classic ASP is a tool in the Languages category of a tech stack.
Key Features
server-side execution environmentprovides native support for both Microsoft JScript and VBScript
Classic ASP Pros & Cons
Pros of Classic ASP
- ✓In real life faster than asp.net
- ✓All you need is a flat text editor as opposed to asp.ne
- ✓Easier to mix with html than php
- ✓Debug with IIS easily
- ✓Fairly good error reporting
- ✓Super easy to learn
- ✓Code and Debug in Visual Studio.Net IDE
- ✓Great if PHP won't work and you use a full IIS setup
Cons of Classic ASP
- ✗Link with any database JET or ODBC
- ✗Low status in most it communities
- ✗Needs MS IIS and MS SQL ($$$)
- ✗No need to use MSQL
- ✗No Session Server required
- ✗You need to develop your own session server function
Classic ASP Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Classic ASP?
JavaScript
JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.
Python
Python is a general purpose programming language created by Guido Van Rossum. Python is most praised for its elegant syntax and readable code, if you are just beginning your programming career python suits you best.
HTML5
HTML5 is a core technology markup language of the Internet used for structuring and presenting content for the World Wide Web. As of October 2014 this is the final and complete fifth revision of the HTML standard of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The previous version, HTML 4, was standardised in 1997.
