What Is ASP?

ASP, or Active Server Page, is a server-side language developed by Microsoft. However, it really is not a language at all, but more of a "language holder." Because you can use several languages inside of ASP, almost anyone with scripting experience can pick up ASP in a short time. This chapter will be using VBScript as the language of choice, but following is a list of the languages that are available:

• VBScript Based on Visual Basic. This is the language most used in ASP.

• Jscript Based on JavaScript. This is the second most popular choice of language for ASP.

• Python A popular development language.

• PerlScript Based on Perl.