Scripting Languages
About two days after we installed the solution in 1997, Microsoft released the first version of its Active Server Pages (ASP) technology. The world of building Internet applications changed abruptly.
In addition to allowing programmable components to be integrated, the servers began providing for scripting languages. Scripting languages such as Microsoft’s ASP and the Java-based Java Server Pages (JSP) were developed to allow HTML to be generated on-the-fly as opposed to being served from a static file.
These scripting languages became very popular, and many of today’s Internet applications are written using one of them.
These languages allow you to author your page, including scripting commands that control how the resulting ...
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