Re: [Skunkworks] not a question about semantics.

Let's put it this way - Classic ASP in the hands of a skilled person can achieve much more than Java in the hands of a wannabe.

In general, the more skilled you are, the more likely you are to care about the quality of the tools you're using. Skilled developers are less likely to choose ASP in the first place over the much, much better alternatives currently out there. Even ASP.NET is pretty clearly a vast improvement over ASP (though I personally wouldn't be caught dead using that either).