ASP is not a language.

Saying that ASP is faster than Perl (or vice versa) is plain stupid because you're comparing a full-blown language (Perl) with a fileparser and scripting engine (ASP).
A saner question would be Perl vs. ASP using VBScript and JScript vs. PHP vs. Java vs. ...
In fact, you can even use PerlScript as your ASP scripting language of choice if you are running ActivePerl.
Maybe you should know that ASP is in no way based on Visual Basic. And age has nothing to do with the quality of a language: Perl is largely based on C which was created in the '70s and was based upon B which was based upon BCPL. So saying Perl sucks because it's half a century old doesn't make much sense, Perl kicks ass! ;-)

nysus: Perl has more attitude and can do a WHOLE lot more than just CGI.
Microsoft has pulled up IIS's performance to a point where there's hardly any difference between ASP on IIS and Perl on Apache's mod_perl.
I say go with Perl because it's so much easier to code (Interdev makes me sick) and you know a Perl coder is a good coder because (s)he doesn't need a WYSIWYG-like editor.

In reply to Re: Re: Re: CGI/Perl vs. ASP by $CBAS
in thread CGI/Perl vs. ASP by nysus

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