> If Windows had shipped with the equivalent of GW-BASIC + extensions Windows 98 shipped with Windows Scripting Host that could run .vbs scripts. I wrote a len

> If Windows had shipped with the equivalent of GW-BASIC + extensions Windows 98 shipped with Windows Scripting Host that could run .vbs scripts. I wrote a lengthy (10 page, IIRC) "introduction to programming" article for a gaming magazine years ago that only used VBScript since that was simple enough syntactically (no weird sigils) and available in every computer out of the box (i even got a couple of people thanking me for this :-P). And of course Internet Explorer with JScript was in there since Win95 OSR.