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Disheartened by ASP

Well, I've spent the past week working on an application written in Classic ASP - just a small update before we do a total rewrite in ASP.NET in a few months. I have to say, I am now slow as hell writing VBScript / ASP, I have no idea why, it's like the bit of my brain that's used to structure applications is just not capable of doing it in VBScript any more. I'm slow, inaccurate and really badly motivated working on this thing - and I really don't know why! Ah well, I have at least another week of this stuff to look forward to before I can get back on to 'proper' coding in .NET / C# again...just have to grin and bear it I suppose!

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# re: Disheartened by ASP

Man, I can't even imagine having to code classic ASP again! There's light at the end of the tunnel!
9/10/2004 6:40 PM | Brendan Tompkins
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# re: Disheartened by ASP

I know how you feel. I was asked to fix a broken ASP app recently, and it took me two hours just to figure out there was wrong path.

And then, even more recently, had to write a dead simple ASP page that displayed a countdown to a launch event. Took twice as long as it should (and some), as I constantly had to refer to the docs to do simple DateTime calculations!!

I think ASP should be outlawed immediately... How did I cope with it for so long?!?!
9/15/2004 2:15 PM | Michael Falconer
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# re: Disheartened by ASP

I'm still on it...had a brief respite yesterday to update a .NET app. It's just really horrible to realise how dependent I've become on in-line validation (so, stuff like missing quotes, parentheses checking etc)...Long live compiled languages!
9/15/2004 2:18 PM | Scott Galloway
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