# ASP or what?
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/asp-or-what/63025
**Category:** random
**Created:** [September 2, 2004, 12:10pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/asp-or-what/63025 "2004-09-02T12:10:32Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@RabBell](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/RabBell)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2004, 12:10pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/asp-or-what/63025/1 "2004-09-02T12:10:32Z")
Quick question
I’ve been doing ASP for about 4 years and I’ve had recruitment agents call me and ask if I’ve done .Net to which I have to say no
Should I lie or is there much difference?
By the way I’m pretty naive when it comes to new tech…I’ve learned what I’ve learned and until someone tells me I have to I shy away from learning new things so if ASP & .Net are similar then I don’t know.
Is [ASP.Net](http://ASP.Net) & .Net different cause I think [ASP.Net](http://ASP.Net) is the same (or pretty close) as ASP
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2004, 12:21pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/asp-or-what/63025/2 "2004-09-02T12:21:13Z")
There’s a lot of difference. Traditional ASP is a lot like PHP in terms of execution method. [ASP.Net](http://ASP.Net) is more like Java, it’s compiled to bytecode and then executed.
The “compiled to bytecode” step means that you can write .net in any language - C#, [VB.net](http://VB.net) etc and make use of the same standard library.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2004, 12:23pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/asp-or-what/63025/3 "2004-09-02T12:23:53Z")
ahhhh I see…fair enough, there are some companies nearby who are converting to [ASP.Net](http://ASP.Net), I’ll have to get a job there and learning Java’s always been on the list
a list I haven’t done anything about for four years but I know I should
any tips for what todays web developer should be learning or should know?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2004, 12:25pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/asp-or-what/63025/4 "2004-09-02T12:25:56Z")
> [@RabBell](#):
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> ahhhh I see…fair enough, there are some companies nearby who are converting to [ASP.Net](http://ASP.Net), I’ll have to get a job there and learning Java’s always been on the list
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> a list I haven’t done anything about for four years but I know I should
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> any tips for what todays web developer should be learning or should know?
Weel… I’m kinda biased… read more of my posts and see 😉 I’m not too big a fan of MS and .Net and all that stuff…
But Java’s quite a useful language, and Sun has one hell of a lot of tutorials and stuff, so it’s quite easy to learn 🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2004, 1:42pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/asp-or-what/63025/5 "2004-09-02T13:42:46Z")
thanks :thumb:
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2004, 4:15pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/asp-or-what/63025/6 "2004-09-02T16:15:50Z")
[www.asp101.com](http://www.asp101.com)
making the switch to .NET is pretty easy on the surface and it will run all of your regular ASP code.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2004, 4:33pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/asp-or-what/63025/7 "2004-09-02T16:33:04Z")
hey thanks prstudio, I use that site all the time but hadn’t noticed their bit on ASP-\>[ASP.Net](http://ASP.Net)
thanks :thumb: