Peoples opinion of ASP?
Any hints for learning/using/I got assigned a big project and have no idea what I'm doing?
I said that I know Java. That's half of the word JavaScript. Which you can use while making a web page along side of PHP. PHP kinda sounds like ASP if you say it a bunch of times really fast. That's probably why I have this project...? I can't think of any other reasons?!?!

You've got to be kidding...

ASP is the perfect example of spaghetti code. I found it a little nicer when using server side JavaScript, VBScript is just horrible. It was almost a breakthrough language back in 1997 but allows many many bad practices. I ended up moving to an xml/xsl approach using asp for only the bare minimum as it was just so nasty.

@bluescreen I've seen well crafted asp sites... Like, 3 of them. The rest are exactly as you said... It gets messy quick unless you are/have a good architect.

@lreading personally I don't think even a good architect helps. The very nature of the mixed script makes it almost unreadable and certainly Unmaintainable and in almost all situations totally untestable. On he projects that I've been unfortunate enough to cross paths with asp I always opted for a more controllable format like xsl and just used it as the processing engine or routing etc opting to take the hit on page redesign rather than try and figure out the 101 different ways in which it would break lol 😄

You got assigned a project for classic ASP? Im assuming its legacy, so f you can at least start using ASP.net WebForms. Depending on the lift, you may even be able to port it to MVC / Razor.

Anything you can do to move away from ASP classic the better.

One hopes you meant asp.net rather than classic asp (shudder)

It's not as bad as I thought it would be. Getting assigned a project on Friday really could've been much worse! (Not saying I'm switching all my personal stuff (or ever mentioning web dev again))
I've even got Monday off for the holiday, well if you consider playing with ASP a holiday... Haha!

I have worked on classic ASP for the last 8 months. Our client is finally realizing that it is quickly dying and might let us rewrite it in MVC. super stoked but super nervous.

stay away from classic ASP it is EOL from quite some time + messy as hell

@xarioth try to get them to approve .net core! some pretty sweet things like DI built in.