Will VBScript continue to be supported?
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From: Peter Olcott on 31 Jul 2010 23:28 On 7/31/2010 3:03 PM, ekkehard.horner wrote: > Peter Olcott schrieb: >> On 7/31/2010 11:49 AM, ekkehard.horner wrote: >>> Peter Olcott schrieb: >>>> I want to know exactly how well I can depend upon the continued >>>> existence of VBScript. I am considering embedding VBScript in a >>>> computer >>>> system that I will be developing. Whatever scripting language that I >>>> choose must be interpreted, and it must have minimal object oriented >>>> support (it must have classes). >>> >>> With regard to the quality of the language (especially its support for >>> OO features), Perl, Python, or Javascript/JScript seem to be a better >>> choice. >>> JScript is part of the package that contains VBScript, so it will be >>> supported as long as VBScript. (Iron)Python works with .NET. >>> ActiveState's Perl is easy to install and works well with Windows. >> >> It has to be an Active Scripting language or it won't work for my >> purposes. My system will be build entirely from ActiveX components. The >> only OO feature that I need is classes. >> > All languages mentioned are ActiveScript languages - you can use all > four in (one) .wsh file(s). What are classes without inheritance, Inheritance breaks encapsulation. > polymorphism, overloading? Most important (in my opinion): VBScript > is the only language without second party support. -- 100% Accurate Display Screen OCR http://www.OCR4Screen.com
From: Al Dunbar on 2 Aug 2010 19:24 "Mayayana" <mayayana(a)invalid.nospam> wrote in message news:i31k2v$22a$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... > There's no "exactly" with Microsoft. In the case > of VBS they've expressed ambivalence. VBS has > been mildly de-emphasized. Javascript has been > adapted to .Net while VBS hasn't. And MS seems to > be slightly pushing PowerShell over WSH, even > though they're really two completely different things. <snip> > Apropos of your question, there was news yesterday > online about Steve Ballmer giving a pep talk to reporters. > He claims that Microsoft is working hard on tablets now. Tablets? Like the tablets Moses brought down from the mountain? > A reporter asked what version of Windows would be on > these tablets. The resulting answer was 2 paragraphs > of nearly incoherent ranting...without answering the > question. It's been reprinted around the Web. :) Hmmm, incomprehensible, eh, just like the original tablets. Funny thing, I checked my Bible and could not find the quote where God says to Moses: "take these two tablets and call me in the morning". /Al
From: Mayayana on 2 Aug 2010 23:37
| Funny thing, I checked my Bible and could not find the quote where God says | to Moses: "take these two tablets and call me in the morning". | No, but I think there must be a line where he says, "Hold on a second, chief. I can never remember anything unless I write it down. OK, go ahead. 'Thou shalt not' ...what?" |