Hi Kent and Alan, Thanks for the responses. It really got me thinking!
To test what i thought i knew, i wrote a "hello world" script in perl and python. in perl this works: #!/usr/bin/env perl hello("World"); sub hello { print "Hello ". $_[0] . "\n"; } but in python: #!/usr/bin/env python hello('World') def hello(name): print "Hello" + name That doesn't. I have a vague recollection that ASP works in a similar way to python hence the "hunch" i had earlier but i could be wrong. It's been a while since i've done programming. I can see how the property of being executable (defs and imports) could be handy, but right now I'm still getting to grips with the language proper. Thanks again for the explanations and I'll keep them in mind as i experiment some more with python. nibudh.
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