ASP is a language-agnostic "glue" technology ... So tell them "Yes, I'll use ASP", and then go ahead and use it with PerlScript.

That advice is both technically correct and dangerious. To less knowledgable managers, ASP means "Microsoft's way of doing it" (i.e., VBScript or JScript). Sneaking in a non-Microsoft technology using a "Well, you didn't understand the acronym" argument is liable to get you in trouble.

You might be able to sneak Perl in this way, and demonstrate how it's superior to VBScript or JScript by solving a gnarly problem quickly, but you're going to have to weight this against the probability of getting your management chain pissed off that you tried to sneak something in under their radar.

Is there a problem so painful that management wouldn't care how it was solved, just that it was solved quickly? That'd be where to start.

In reply to Re: •Re: Friends don't let friends use ASP? by dws
in thread Friends don't let friends use ASP? by emilford

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