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VBScript had both (actually the browser was the most popular), and look how far it went.
by guard-of-terra 15y ago
VBScript had both (actually the browser was the most popular), and look how far it went.
- afsina 15y agoit only worked in IE and Windows.
- sambeau 15y agoTrue, but times were different. Microsoft was being evil in the browser wars, being a monopolist and pissing off the hacker community: just the people you need for a new tech like this to take off.
- mdaniel 15y agoOne can also argue that VBScript is not tooling-friendly. I am talking a little out of school, since I have never had to use VB.net; it could be wholly different. But I have had my fair share of VBScript interactions and those were not fun (Microsoft-isms aside).
- flomo 15y agoVBScript was one of the most popular server-side scripting languages in the late 90s. If they had a JavaScript translator, MS developers would have used it.