Doing CGI with VB, is it worth it?

[KingofSnake]

Ok, I've been wanting to do CGI for a while now, and I'm going to dive in.

I don't know perl or C, so I decided I might try Visual Basic, cuse I know that laungage (Well, I know enough).

My question is... What kind of limitations is there with Visual Basic CGI as opposed to Peal/C CGI?

And if I do use Visual Basic, does the user viewing my website have to have that visual basic dll file? Because if they do, then I think I'll just try to learn some perl instead.
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[vcherubini]

Isn't Visual Basic the same as ASP? If so, the server that you use has to have ASP installed on it (i.e., it has to be a Windows Server).

Asking a question like that in a forum that is geared toward Perl as the language of choice for CGI, you will most likely get a biased response.

I have never used ASP/VB to make a real web application (I have dabbled in it enough to make an argument against it).

I personally would go with Perl over VB/ASP as my server side language.

Here are some reasons:

1. Perl has almost unlimitted support. You can go to millions of websites and find example scripts, and tutorials people have posted for free. With ASP, you have MSDN and thats about it. I don't think that I have ever seen an ASP script written that someone has given away for free.
2. Perl runs on just about every OS. Windows servers cost a lot more to maintain (Windows == $$$, Linux != $$$), so using ASP, you will find yourself spending a lot more a month for a server.
3. ASP is just plain harder to use in my opinion. Unless you are a die hard OOP person, I would not suggest it.
4. Perl/Apache are free. You can install them on your system and test your scripts out locally. ASP/IIS cost money.

Well, those are my arguments. I am sure that if you ask in the ASP forum which to use, you will get several rebuttles, but I am sure that most of the people in this forum would go with Perl over anything.

Hope this helps.
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[KingofSnake]

I apologize.

I was misinformed... There is no such thing as VB CGI. ASP is similar, but that's not what i was looking for.

Again, sorry. Hehe. I guess I shouldn't listen to my brother all the time, huh?
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[vcherubini]

Heh, don't appoligize. I think I was kind of vague in my post.

Any language can be a CGI language. All CGI says is there is going to be a common language between the server and a language that you are going to speak in the same language. (I got that from

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2000/01/10PerlMyths.html#Perl_is_just_for_CGI).

So any language can be a CGI language, the most common just happens to be Perl.

I like Perl more (see reasons above), but thats just my opinion.

So if your brother said ASP is a CGI language, then he is correct, its not the most popular though.

Hope this helps.
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