ASP at my Breast

Picked up the 1200-page Professional ASP.NET 1.1 on Thursday and am now immersed in a 3-day gulp of new technology that — at last! — unites APL and web building. ASP.NET compacts the source code for dynamic web sites, abstracts away detail I was hand-coding in PHP, and lets me use Dyalog APL as a scripting language, giving me a double hit on the code compaction.

For example, Visual Basic:

sub Page_Load (Source As Object, E As EventArgs)
   If Not Page.IsPostBack Then
      list.Items.Add 'Apple'
      list.Items.Add 'Orange'
      list.Items.Add 'Pear'
   End If
End Sub

versus APLScript:

Page_Load
:Access Public
:If ~IsPostBack
   list.Items.Add¨'Apple' 'Orange' 'Pear'
:EndIf