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ASP is not a scripting language, it is a framework. ASP can be used with VBScript, JScript or even Python. guaka 20:41 5 Jul 2003 (UTC)

a bit inaccurate

I feel that more appropriate title for this would be 'web programming' as the article outlines technologies usually associated with building web applications using the process of web programming. Although server-side scripting IS web programming, it is more common to refer to this as web programming. Also, some of the technologies mentioned are just server-side, not scripting languages (CGI for example, ASP.NET is also compiled). So I suggest one of the following:
a) whole thing moves to a new 'web programming' page.
b) the article gets trimmed to just a specifics of server-side scripting.

I would suggest the latter, if only for the sake of keeping this title as a parallel to client-side scripting.
As for the question of using the word "scripting", it's my experience that even when languages not considered "scripting languages" are used in this context, it's still referred to as "server-side scripting" because the program is still a "script" in the sense of being a program that responds to a certain event. We should probably be clear about this in the article, though. —Triskaideka 14:45, 20 Aug 2004 (UTC)


To mention some history, Tcl was one of the first big scripting languages used for serious work, in the form of AOLserver and Storyserver. They didn't open source them soon enough, though, and so they faded from the spotlight.

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