• allywilson@sopuli.xyz
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      1 year ago

      Correct. You know how JavaScript is not Java? Same thing. If memory serves me correctly there was a bit of a race to be the next Windows script language between NT4 and 2000 (to replace batch), and it was between VBScript and Kixtart (the former won out).

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      1 year ago

      Correct.

      To get a feel for what VBScript was like, think of Visual Basic. Now throw out all the good bits and mix in a bunch of JavaScript style quirks.

      Then try to parse binary data packets with it, beacuse XML isn’t widely supported and JSON has not been invented/discovered yet.

      It was bad.