Question: what is the purpose of active server pages? 

Answer: Active server pages process information inside a webpage and render a result depending on their function. The end user does not see all that is being processed, and sees only the results.\n\nIt is a scripting language for HTML functionality that allows access to the computer and other resources, databases and the likes.\n\nASP is a Microsoft language for use on Microsoft Server operating systems. Its Linux version would be PHP, which is 100% free and much more stable and also open source. PHP runs on Windows and Linux, hoever Linux is the prefered platform for servers.
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