I am in a web design class at my school and for databases and server side functions we use Lasso. I am interested in creating a free hosted website from AstaHost and I am not sure if Lasso is supported by their free servers. My teacher told us that after we learn Lasso that it would be easy to adapt to other languages like php, and I wondered if this is true or not.

I am not absolutely positive mostly because I have never heard of Lasso until you mentioned it and doing a search came up with very few results. It seems to be a proprietary program and I did find a site that ooffered a tutorial (for a price) and did notice that Lasso can query mSQL as well as MySQL.

I kind of doubt if astahost or any host would place a program that is not open source for use by others. It seems that this is a mean of getting into web based programming or design but not really a very popular system.

Try a search for PHP or MySQL or Perl and you will get all kinds of hits but with Lasso you will find very few that concern web programming or design.

yeah I was disappointed when my teacher told me in my class we were going to use lasso. I know its not very popular, I think im going to try and learn php from looking around on the internet.