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Does no-one remember VBScript and Active Server Pages (ASP). It was Visual basic as a server-side language, positioned to challenge PHP. VB made it to the web
by rathboma 3y ago
Does no-one remember VBScript and Active Server Pages (ASP). It was Visual basic as a server-side language, positioned to challenge PHP.
VB made it to the web :-)
- SoftTalker 3y agoOh yes. And VBscript in the browser as well (as long as it was IE). One of their attempts at browser "lock-in"
- antod 3y agoIf you installed ActivePerl or ActivePython (remember those?), IE would also let you use them in the browser too with Active Scripting. It was an ActiveX thing, so only for IE.
- antod 3y agoI doubt MS was even aware of PHP 1.x when they released ASP back in 1996. Hardly anyone else was aware of PHP before 3.x either. By the time I found it, PHP 3.x/4.x was such an improvement over classic ASP / VBScript, that I think MS would've done a better job if it was positioned to challenge PHP :)