Scripting Languages

• Active Server Pages

  Active Server Pages, or ASP, is a web technology which creates web pages on-the-fly. ASP was the first scripting language I used. I should note that technically ASP is not a language - it usually uses VBScript to do the actual scripting.

• ASP.NET

  While not technically a scripting language, I felt I should mention it here. ASP.NET is a server-side technology which acts in a similar way to server-side scripting (such as ASP and PHP). ASP differs, however, in that it uses VB.NET (or C#.NET) for coding, and is thus actually compiled.

  I used ASP.NET for quite awhile.

• PHP

  After I moved to Mac, I found that it did not support ASP.NET. However, I very quickly found out that it supported other scripting languages. I chose PHP. (perhaps randomly, perhaps because I had seen the .php extension on various web pages, perhaps because it was suggested on Apple's built-in server's default page). I have since used PHP quite extensively, and know quite well most of its language features.

  This website is written from scratch in PHP.