PHP vs ASP (1/2)

With the exponential growth of dynamic websites, a question also arises: is it better to use PHP or ASP?

In this space we do not claim to dissolve doubts nor to impose our point of view. However, we only wanted to reflect on a topic that is increasingly gaining ground among developers (and therefore professionals) and also among those who are not programmers but nevertheless want to understand it better. What we have perceived, at the time of writing this and organizing the service you find on these pages, is that it is difficult to talk about the supremacy of one technology over another. The choice of one or the other usually depends on sympathy, mission, or rather, vocation. It is thus understood that those coming from Visual Basic rarely move to programming dynamic websites with PHP, while those from the Open Source world, with Linux at the forefront, do not readily accept the software and technologies of Bill Gates.Active Server PagesActive Server Pages, or more simply ASP, is a scripting language widely used among those who create dynamic pages. ASP stands out for its speed and flexibility, although, for it to work, it requires Microsoft servers such as IIS. Although some dare to challenge the technology and, with the appropriate integrations, try to run an ASP-created site on servers other than Microsoft’s, it must be said that not everyone swears by the effectiveness and functioning of ASP on servers different from those made by Bill Gates’s company. Therefore, the servers that support ASP are: MS Internet Information Server 4 (Windows NT Srv 4 + Sp3 or higher); MS Internet Information Server 3 (Windows NT Srv 3.51 or higher); MS Personal Web Server 4 (Windows NT Wrks 4 – Windows 95/98); MS Personal Web Server 1.x, through the asp.exe extension that must be installed separately (Windows 95); MS Personal Web Server 4.x (Macintosh); MS Peer Web Service 1.x or higher, through the asp.exe extension to be installed separately (Windows NT Wrks 4); Apache 1.1.3 or higher, in a non-standard way but by converting Perl pages into ASP (Windows NT Wrks 4). The typical ASP tag is , where there are no spaces between the greater-than and/or less-than and the percentage.

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