>Thank you for all of you guys,
>now what about Pearl vs Python vs VBScript vs JScript?

Mariam:

For new questions you should always start a new thread.

I don't know PERL or Python so I can't talk about them. A quick Google search will probably get you plenty of references.

Re: VBScript vs JScript, I assume you are considering an older ASP page (in a Windows-based platform). This has been supreceeded by ASP.Net where you would use full languages such as C# or VB.Net

In the case of scripting languages, VBS is a subset of the old VB (classic) and JScript is Microsoft's implementation of JavaScript. This is a scripting language with similar syntax to C# (don't confuse it with Java as it has nothing to do with it). VBS is used for server code and JS for server code. Would be very rare to do it the other way around as VBS is not portable accross browsers while JS is a lot more. JS is nice and works well with mst brpowsers. It implements the Browser DOM for IE and Netscape with various degrees of compatibility (I'm including JavaScript where appropriate here).

VBS works ok in classic ASP. It's somewhat limited as it is only a scripting language (a subsetof VB as said before). It can process data through the use of ADO (an ActiveX object that works in Microsoft Windows platforms).

If you plan to run a web site in other than MS-IIS (e.g. Apache), then you'd have to look at PERL, Python, PHP and the like.

HTH