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Re:On VBScript by int_19h on Thursday December 20, 2018 @06:24AM (#18724005)
Classic ASP and VBScript were never point-and-click. It was ASP.NET that introduced the visual designer etc.
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Re:On VBScript by teh_klev on Friday December 21, 2018 @06:41AM (#18732754)
Visual Interdev[0], permitted folks to build Classic ASP apps using drag'n'drop. It wasn't quite as sophisticated as Visual Studio.NET, but the basics were there. I never used it myself because there was too much "magic" and preferred to knock out my ASP using TextPad.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_InterDev

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Re:On VBScript by oblio on Thursday December 20, 2018 @11:18AM (#18726178)
Them I'm not sure I get the point. Why are classic ASP and VBScript low brow?
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Re:On VBScript by int_19h on Friday December 21, 2018 @06:18PM (#18737603)
Think of it as PHP with VB syntax, and without much of a standard library.
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Re:On VBScript by gscott on Thursday December 20, 2018 @03:36PM (#18728879)
At the time of their development there were not many best practices yet. Microsoft promised a version 4.0 and in the process morphed that development into Asp .Net instead.
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