Note: the following is a personal opinion.

Another poster mentioned the lack of syntactic sugar in ASP. I wish I had votes for "understatement of the day". When we started working on a project over a year ago, the project manager suggested using ASP because "there are millions of books on it". After looking into it, I realized it was VB for web programming, with all the overly-verbose syntax of Visual Basic.

But, aside from a clumsy syntax, it should work great, right? Well, try to write a file-upload web-application using only ASP. It can be done, but there is nothing (that I'm aware of) like CGI.pm that handles this kind of thing gracefully - most if not all of the solutions for file uploads using ASP are commercialware and rather expensive.

Enough negativity about ASP - I'd prefer to speak positively about perl. "Perl makes the difficult jobs possible, and the easy jobs easy." Basically it's pure freedom and comes with great perl communities like this one.

I hope this gives you some insight into why you got the responses you did on your previous post.

...Guv