Hi,

I'm looking foward to building a online community website that offers personal homepages for people. I'm planning to include it all, buddy list, instant messaging, profiles, polls, counters, message board, etc.

Now I'm Pretty good w/ perl and would be able to build such a site with it. I'm also good with databases too. I'll be using a Apache with mod_perl to handle such a site.

But lately, more and more sites like these are using ASP. Whats the difference? I can't seem to find any where that just gives a flat out explanation on the difference between ASP and Perl. I know Perl can do much more then just web developing, but when a project requires just "web development", which language should I use, Perl or ASP? Are there any benefits with ASP in web developing that can not be used with Perl?

Thanks,
Any suggestions or feedback will be greatly appreciated.

In reply to Perl OR ASP by Anonymous Monk

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