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> will go the way of VBScript and Silverlight. So it will either die off quickly or be extremely popular and stick around for 20+ years? VBScript is just as o

> will go the way of VBScript and Silverlight. So it will either die off quickly or be extremely popular and stick around for 20+ years? VBScript is just as old as PHP and was the primary scripting language on Microsoft products for a solid decade. It was in everything from Office to IIS and still ships with every copy of Windows. Silverlight is just a framework and was only in active development for 5 or 6 years before being killed off.

floatboth 8y ago
Isn't VB for Applications (Office) a different thing than VBScript?
- folkrav 8y ago
  VBScript is a subset of VBA IIRC
  - cptskippy 8y ago
    Sorta but not really. You can write a single piece of code that's valid C, C++, C#, and Java but that doesn't make them the same language or subsets of one another. VBScript started out using the same conventions as VB and a subset of the syntax but it was never really related to it beyond that. There are different flavors of VBScript as well. CScript is a console variant, WScript for window environments, and ASP for IIS Web Development. They're mostly compatible but not entirely. When classes were introduced, they weren't immediately available across all the variations and still aren't IIRC. It's all very confusing though ultimately I don't think that it contributed to the negative connotations about it. Being associated with VB was ultimately what tainted it.
- cptskippy 8y ago
  Those are two different things. VBScript was the Macro language used in Office Products. There is also an SDK for VB/VB.NET for developing plug-ins and other tools that's completely different.
  - jetti 8y ago
    Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) was what is used in Office Products and that is modeled after Visual Basic 6, not VBScript. VBScript was used mostly for Classic ASP development (both front end and backend).
    - dvlsg 8y ago
      You could use vbscript for, well, scripting. Essentially taking the same position / purpose as batch files on windows. Pretty sure that still works. I wouldn't do it anymore, personally, but I'm almost positive it's still functional.
      - jetti 8y ago
        You could, but I believe most of VBScript use came from web dev. I have the fortune of working on a classic asp site at work now.

floatboth 8y ago

Isn't VB for Applications (Office) a different thing than VBScript?

folkrav 8y ago
VBScript is a subset of VBA IIRC
- cptskippy 8y ago
  Sorta but not really. You can write a single piece of code that's valid C, C++, C#, and Java but that doesn't make them the same language or subsets of one another. VBScript started out using the same conventions as VB and a subset of the syntax but it was never really related to it beyond that. There are different flavors of VBScript as well. CScript is a console variant, WScript for window environments, and ASP for IIS Web Development. They're mostly compatible but not entirely. When classes were introduced, they weren't immediately available across all the variations and still aren't IIRC. It's all very confusing though ultimately I don't think that it contributed to the negative connotations about it. Being associated with VB was ultimately what tainted it.
cptskippy 8y ago
Those are two different things. VBScript was the Macro language used in Office Products. There is also an SDK for VB/VB.NET for developing plug-ins and other tools that's completely different.
- jetti 8y ago
  Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) was what is used in Office Products and that is modeled after Visual Basic 6, not VBScript. VBScript was used mostly for Classic ASP development (both front end and backend).
  - dvlsg 8y ago
    You could use vbscript for, well, scripting. Essentially taking the same position / purpose as batch files on windows. Pretty sure that still works. I wouldn't do it anymore, personally, but I'm almost positive it's still functional.
    - jetti 8y ago
      You could, but I believe most of VBScript use came from web dev. I have the fortune of working on a classic asp site at work now.