Enough with the VBScript!
Written 26 May 2005
I’ve had enough. “Enough!” I say, “Enough!” Of what? Of programming in vbscript. While a very simple language to learn, and easy(ier) for non-programmers to understand, the work arounds needed to accomplish relatively simple tasks is annoying. Or perhaps I should say, it is not as capable as say JavaScript.
It reminds me of what I read several years agao while researching Visual Basic and Delphi. Microsoft likes to make the easy things easier with their tools, but the difficult remain difficult or even increase in difficulty.
I have the feel however that statement is directed at their “consumer” graded development tools. At least what I hear about Visual Studio counters that statement. Of course that is for the high dollar version of Visual Studio.
What does all this rambling mean? That for Intranet development at work, if it must be done in ASP then I henceforth I will use JavaScript.