Problems with ASP Today

When Active Server Pages (ASP) was first introduced almost five years ago, it was seen as an answer to the awkward techniques used at that time for creating dynamic content on the Web. At the time Common Gateway Interface programs or proprietary server plug-ins were the way that most of the Web's dynamic content was created. With the release of ASP 1.0, Microsoft changed all that. ASP 1.0 provided a flexible robust scripting architecture that enabled developers to rapidly create dynamic Web applications. Developers could write in VBScript or JScript and Microsoft provided a number of services to make development easy. At the time, it was just what developers needed. As Web development matured several shortcomings of the ...

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