ASP, JSP, .NET, C# What are these???

[hogtied]

I know ASP and JSP stand for active server pages and java server pages respectfully. But .NET and C# I havn't a clue. At first i thought the ASP & JSP were programs/scripts that interact with databases. But as I research more it almost seems as if they were HTML generators, database connection, and maybe a few other things. If someone would be nice and try to explain what these or some of these "languages" are and do???


Thanks

Hogtied

 

[nomi2000]

ASP-is an scripting engine which provides interface to write server-side scripting using other languages as vb,java or PERL etc..ASP itself is not lang but engine or environment
JSP- is also an alternative to ASP which uses Java Lang as server side scripting
.NET - is a microsoft framework consisting of OS and languages used to devloped enterprise based soltns it inculde .NET OS and .NET devlopment tools and langs like .NET VB .NET C and .NET C#
C# is a lang just an extension of C++ when i watched it ,its certainly is something close to C++ but somewhat more powerfull than C++.it can generate code which is platform independent so its the best but the hardest one (if one don't have C++ backgrond) to use
Hope it will help you
Regards
Nouman

 

[hogtied]

Ok so lets just talk about ASP for now anyway. Can ASP run on UNIX servers?

 

[jemminger]

yes - there are third party softwares for this, like ChiliASP (from Sun?)

 

[nomi2000]

Dear Hogtied
yes you can use ASP on UNIX or other OS as menioned by jemminger ChiliAsp which enables you to use ASP on Unix based machine...
Regards
Nouman