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Re:Ending PHP Support, and the Future of Hack by cptskippy on Thursday September 13, 2018 @10:17AM (#17978766)
Those are two different things. VBScript was the Macro language used in Office Products. There is also an SDK for VB/VB.NET for developing plug-ins and other tools that's completely different.
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Re:Ending PHP Support, and the Future of Hack by jetti on Thursday September 13, 2018 @10:49AM (#17979027)
Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) was what is used in Office Products and that is modeled after Visual Basic 6, not VBScript. VBScript was used mostly for Classic ASP development (both front end and backend).
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Re:Ending PHP Support, and the Future of Hack by dvlsg on Friday September 14, 2018 @04:22PM (#17990621)
You could use vbscript for, well, scripting. Essentially taking the same position / purpose as batch files on windows. Pretty sure that still works. I wouldn't do it anymore, personally, but I'm almost positive it's still functional.
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Re:Ending PHP Support, and the Future of Hack by jetti on Friday September 14, 2018 @05:41PM (#17991212)
You could, but I believe most of VBScript use came from web dev. I have the fortune of working on a classic asp site at work now.
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