Originally posted here by AngryBob
im busy trying to learn a bit of perl, and all i keep hearing is that i should use ASP...whats wrong with perl?!?
There's nothing wrong with Perl - just the M$ bigots out there will always seemingly say that their way is the best way of thinking... guess that's how mind control works. Learning Perl will enable you to write CGI for pretty much any webserver out there, including Mac... learning ASP, well, you can write pages for IIS and, well, servers where the admin (probably) had to include the module so that he/she could dump the NT box and put the webserver on a platform that was actually designed to be up continuously for months or years.

i am under the impression that ASP is just for IIS which is the quite possibly the worst server out there....
Actually there are ASP modules for quite a few servers out there now, including Apache. If you ask me, however, it's a waste of time (well, ok, that's not entirely true - it's useful to learn and it's similiar to others (like PHP); I just tend to be biased against most of the way M$ software runs/ships (read: wide open rather than mostly closed)).