[UPHPU] any asp converts?

[Jon Jensen]

> Hi Jon, perhaps you can help me understand what "plain vanilla ASP" is??
> In the world of acronyms I some times loose myself.  I know ASP as
> "Application Service Provider" and on the Microsoft Site if you search for
> ASP, they also seem to use the ASP that way.  I also believe that the
> previouse versions of IIS you could run VBscript and so is that what you
> mean?  IIS instead of ASP?  The only other instance I can find of ASP from
> Microsoft is ASP.NET...

As Dave pointed out, prior to .NET, ASP meant Active Server Pages. It's
basically the Microsoft equivalent of PHP -- you write scripts in VBScript
that run on the server and output HTML. Despite Microsoft's extensive .NET
marketing, there are still many, many sites and systems built on plain ASP,
since many people feel upgrading to .NET is too expensive.

Jon