Dear Friends,

   Will anyone tell me that ASP is a Tool or a Language.

thanks


Prabhakar

Prabhakar Kumar

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ASP is a scripting language.

A scripting language is different from a High level language in following ways.

1) scripting language is interpreted. HLLs(VB, Delphi, Pascal) are compiled. This means that programs written in an HLL is faster.

2) scripting languages require an engine to be installed on server. HLLs does not. They come with its own compilers.

3) There is no strict data types in a scripting language. All variables are of a general type. But in an HLL, data types are there and each variable needs to be of a defined data type. This means that the space allocation for an HLL program can be done before starting the program. In scripting languages, this is not possible.

4) Normally all scripting languages can be done with simple text editors like notepad (forget about the efficiency/productivity !!). HLL languages like VB, Delphi require its own IDE.

Hi Madhu,
        Thanks for ur reply. But what I will say if any one ask that ASP is a Language or Tool. In ur view it's a Language. But in Wrox book i have learned that ASP is a Tool.

Thanks...


Prabhakar Kumar

Prabhakar,
ASP is not a language.
A "Technology" is probably a better description, VBScript and Javascript are 'languages' that can be used with ASP.
Because ASP is 'used' to generate HTML/access a DB, a 'tool' is a valid description but when I think of tools I think more of utilities or development tools like Visual Studio or Homesite.






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Hi Rodmcleay,

        Thanks for ur answer. U r saying that it is a technology and also saying it a tool, but Madhu is saying that it is a acripting language. U both are confusing me. How I will answer any one who will ask me about ASP. Please describe me. I am also searching in different books. In wrox book for Beginner ASP it is mentioned that ASP is a tool.

Again Thanks for ur reply.

Prabhakar

Prabhakar Kumar

I would say that a Technology as rodmcleay did. When you are asked about ASP, you can always tell them, "Active Server Pages, Microsoft's technology enables HTML pages to be dynamic and interactive by embedding scripts, i.e. either VBScript or JScript, Microsoft's alternative of JavaScript.", to keep that simple.

Cheers!

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I made the mistake. It is the VB script which is a scripting language. ASP provides an environment for VBScript to run. In addition to VBScript, you can use other scripting languages like JScript using ASP.

You may call ASP as a "Server side scripting environment".

Sorry for the mistake.

Hi to all madhu,Rodmcleay,Vijay

       Thanks for all ur reply. I am now confirm that we can't say ASP a tool or a language..it just an enviornment where we can writ code for dynamic excution.

Thanks again

Prabhakar

Prabhakar Kumar