ASP - Template language

ASP, aka Active Server Pages, is an open source template language created in 1996.

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Active Server Pages (ASP), later known as Classic ASP or ASP Classic, is Microsoft's first server-side script engine for dynamically generated web pages. ASP.NET, first released in January 2002, has superseded ASP.. Read more on Wikipedia...

Tags: template language
There are at least 47,971 ASP repos on GitHub
Early development of ASP happened in Microsoft
The Google BigQuery Public Dataset GitHub snapshot shows 23k users using ASP in 33k repos on GitHub
Explore ASP snippets on Rosetta Code
ASP on HOPL
Pygments supports syntax highlighting for ASP
GitHub supports syntax highlighting for ASP
Indeed.com has 9,630 matches for "ASP developer".
See also: (6 related languages) VBScript, JScript, HTML, C#, JSP, PHP
1 PLDB concepts link to ASP: ASP.NET

Example from hello-world:

<%@ Language= "VBScript" %>
<%
    Response.Write("Hello World")
%>

Example from Wikipedia:

<%
On Error Resume Next

Response.Write 1 / 0 ' Division by zero

If Err.Number <> 0 Then
     Response.Write "Error Code: " & Server.HTMLEncode(Err.Number) & "<br />"
     Response.Write "Error Source: " & Server.HTMLEncode(Err.Source) & "<br />"
     Response.Write "Error Description: " & Server.HTMLEncode(Err.Description) & "<br />"
     Err.Clear
End If
%>

Language features

Feature	Supported	Example	Token
Strings	✓	"Hello world"	"
Print() Debugging	✓		Response.Write