Posted by Matthew Sims on 01/06/05 19:22

> It should be noted that the MS KnowledgeBase article about trying to do a
> dynamic include (as of when I last used ASP, years ago) made absolutely NO
> mention of using:
>
> <!--#include <%=FileName%> --!>
>
> and tells you to just 'read' and 'print' the file -- which doesn't execute
> the ASP at all, and there is no 'eval' function (as far as I could find).
>
> So, assuming this #include stuff actually works, I guess it's just the
> documentation that sucked, not the actual technology.
>
> For *THIS* problem.
>
> I fought with ASP for only a few months, but it felt like years, and I
> hated every minute of it.
>
> I actually wrote comments in ASP like:
>
> <% /*
> Microsoft sucks, Microsoft sucks
> Can't moveFirst in an empty record set
> */ %>
>
> My co-workers knew when such comments were written, since I would sing
> them as I typed. (Yes, really)
>
> I had a lonnnnnnnnnng song before that two months was up...
>
> "Boolean expressions don't short-circuit" is another verse I recall, off
> the top of my head.
>
> Sadly, I lost all my copies of that song/project.
>
> Oh well.
>
> If somebody out there actually *LIKES* ASP VBScript programming, more
> power to them -- So long as I don't have to ever use it again, I don't
> care what you use.
>
> Oh yeah, here's a good one:
>
> *EVERY* error message coming back from SQL Server had the same error
> number -- Even when the error *message* was different! That's got to be
> in the running for dumbest software design choice on the planet.
>

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