when i say widely-purposed, i mean a language that i can use for the most amount of purposes. I want to be a web designer which means I need to be able to, well, create whatever my "customer" wants. I want to be able to create user interfaces, message boards, blogs, attrative web pages, and be able to plug java applets into them. That is what I loved about JSP. But unfortunately I can't find any web hosts out there that support JSPs. So, ive been looking into php and asp, and im leanin more towards php. But what do u love so much about asp? or is that just the language you learned 1st? Anyways, for a q u can answer, what are the advantages of asp, and the advantages of php? Thanks again!

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