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ASP is not a language like VBScript or JavaScript - it is a hosting environment that extends the normal capabilities of a web server and exposes objects for use in web programming. It is accessed by either VBScript (it's default) or JavaScript, and in fact many of the functions you use client-side with these languages can be cut- and-pasted into an ASP page.
ASP's coding, regardless of the langauge you choose, is all ascii text and resides right along side normal HTML and is delimited by <% and %>. Example:
<html> <head> </head> <body> <% ' Here is some output: response.write Now() ' writes the current date and time. %> </body> </html>