Introducing ASP: Learning About ASP and Server-Side Programming

ASP is a Web server scripting language from Microsoft used for embedding dynamic content into HTML Web pages. ASP stands for “Active Server Pages.” ASP is a serverside scripting language. What distinguishes ASP from something like clientside JavaScript is that the code is executed on the server. This means that the server executes your script and translates the content to HTML before sending it to your Web browser. All of the heavy lifting and computing is done on the server. When a user looks at the source for the Web page created by your ASP file, they have no way of knowing what's going on behind the scenes—all they see is the end result. [via]

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