ASP pages could be written in Microsoft's ECMAScript variation of JavaScript (JScript), and they even carried the tradition on to JScript.NET (with blazing fast

ASP pages could be written in Microsoft's ECMAScript variation of JavaScript (JScript), and they even carried the tradition on to JScript.NET (with blazing fast performance. JScript.NET was the underappreciated step-child of the .NET ecosystem). http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms974588.aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms974588.aspx I don't even know if that is still around, as it never really gained much traction. Nonetheless, I was using the "same language on the client and the server" argument 14 years ago. Nice to see the world caught up to my utter brilliance.