"Adam D. Ruppe" <destructiona...@gmail.com> wrote in message news:iqkbm3$8gc$1...@digitalmars.com... > Nick Sabalausky wrote: >> Be glad it's not VB6, or worse, VBScript. > > Oh, I know it! One of my side jobs I picked up this year is > maintaining somd old VBS program, using classic ASP. > > There's so much nonsense. It doesn't help that the original author > was horribly incompetent - he never used functions/subs, just copy > and pasted everything. Over and over and over again. > > (And to make it worse, the authors apparently didn't know HTML. Not > a single standard link or form. *everything* is done as javascript > or client side vbscript - mixed at random - calls in href attrs.) >
Ouch. I've been to sites that couldn't figure out how to make a link without JS. It gives you the same sort of feeling as watching a perfectly healthy grown adult be unable to...I dunno, insert anything blatantly obvious that most toddlers have mastered here. ;) > > My biggest problem when writing code for them though is that I > instinctively put semicolons at the end of thoughts.... > Heh, I have the exact same problem anytime I use a no-semicolon language. :) >> CGI has had a stigma of high startup costs > > I'm now convinced almost all of CGI's bad reputation is actually > Perl's problems that got misattributed. > Yea, I don't that. Especially since I've started noticing at least one shared web host that took "CGI" to mean "Perl and Python".
