Microsoft is killing off an iconic programming tool – farewell to VBScript

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JavaScript and Powershell

... Look I'm no visual basic zealot, and I've only done very occasional vbscrpt in office but ..

Ok JavaScript is unfortunately ubiquitous but.... Powershell???

> Look I'm no visual basic zealot, and I've only done very occasional vbscrpt in office

If its in office, its Visual Basic for Applications, not VBScript. They are similar, but different.

> Ok JavaScript is unfortunately ubiquitous but.... Powershell???

PowerShell is the .NET based shell and associated scripting language that replaced the DOS-evolved Command Prompt & BAT language as the primary one of each in Windows (and which is also available cross-platform for all OS’s .NET is available for.)

Yeah, it’s going to continue as a scripting option on Windows with the retirement of VBScript, why wouldn't it?

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