Re: FN-FORUM: ASP / ASP.net

date posted 24th January 2004 20:10

On Sat, 2004-01-24 at 13:19, Dan Cook wrote:
> I apologise in advance for asking what, to many, will seem like a stupid
> question. However, I am interested to know what the difference is between
> ASP and ASP.net and what the advantages / disadvantages of using them are.

Some new features are great, most only sound great.

For example, with .net everything is compiled for faster execution (and
great hoo-har is made of this). I have only ever written 1 ASP class
that really could have done with it. (In the end I just rolled it up
into a COM object and built it with VB6.). You visitors will never
notice that page X now runs through in half the number of milliseconds.

Basically you need more hardware, to do the same job, slightly faster
and no one will even notice. Especially when the only real bottleneck
(the database) hasn't changed.

>From a developers point of view lots of things now work better and
asp.net is much closer to a real programming language than VB's cut down
little brother. There are a lot of things you can do now that you needed
a COM object to do before.

C# is a nice language for capitan pedantic, probably only created
because vb script had such a poor reputation. (if you want to learn a
real programming lang, learn C++)

ASP Classic is not the horrid little scripting lang that Pete makes out,
its only that most people use it as one.

But yes, ASP.NET is different, richer and more complicated. That
basically means you have to chuck your trusty text editor in the bin and
get visual studio.

--
Rick

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