Perl or ASP 1

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I am facing the choice of learning Perl or ASP. But i am not sure which one has a brighter future. I understand that Perl is mostly used in Unix internet server, and ASP is used mostly in Microsoft internet server. Maybe the question should be "which kind of internet server has the brighter future?"

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Both have a bright future, and both will serve you very well in the job market.

If your looking for the quickest path to something you can get good at, I would suggest ASP -- although once you're good at PERL, it really is a great language, too.

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Thanks.

Is it very hard to learn both? And is it worthwhile to do it?
I know a lot about Visual Basic for Application and SQL. I just learned to use ADO. And I learned C five years ago.

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Eh -- I've looked at PERL code, and that's about it. Have some friends who code in it, and their favorite thing to brag about is how much they can do in one line... how efficient the code is...

To me, the syntax looks a little confusing (but so did C++ and VB the first time I looked at it) --

My advice would be to pour yourself into one or the other... I would think it'd be really time consuming and confusing to get really good in both at the same time (probably spin your wheels a bit, too, trying to remember which was which).

ADO is good stuff, and dotNet is coming out soon, with a little different treatment of ADO, but it is going to be in there. Anyone who's good in dotNet (and ADO) should be able to do just fine in the job market. That's where I'm putting my eggs at the moment...

It's such a hard question to answer. I'm sorta biased to VB and VBScript, though, because it's so readable and easy to code in... easy to debug... all that jazz.

 

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Thanks again.

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