Re:Ending PHP Support, and the Future of Hack
by cptskippy on Thursday September 13, 2018 @10:43AM
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Sorta but not really.
You can write a single piece of code that's valid C, C++, C#, and Java but that doesn't make them the same language or subsets of one another.
VBScript started out using the same conventions as VB and a subset of the syntax but it was never really related to it beyond that. There are different flavors of VBScript as well. CScript is a console variant, WScript for window environments, and ASP for IIS Web Development. They're mostly compatible but not entirely. When classes were introduced, they weren't immediately available across all the variations and still aren't IIRC.
It's all very confusing though ultimately I don't think that it contributed to the negative connotations about it. Being associated with VB was ultimately what tainted it.
You can write a single piece of code that's valid C, C++, C#, and Java but that doesn't make them the same language or subsets of one another.
VBScript started out using the same conventions as VB and a subset of the syntax but it was never really related to it beyond that. There are different flavors of VBScript as well. CScript is a console variant, WScript for window environments, and ASP for IIS Web Development. They're mostly compatible but not entirely. When classes were introduced, they weren't immediately available across all the variations and still aren't IIRC.
It's all very confusing though ultimately I don't think that it contributed to the negative connotations about it. Being associated with VB was ultimately what tainted it.