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VBScript Disadvantages

Added 28 Jul 2008

  • Some of the syntax is very different from C++ and will probably frustrate experienced programmers.
    • “=” is used for both assignment and comparison
    • the “()” characters are used less often then in C++
    • "NOT" does both boolean and bitwise NOT (so NOT true is false, but NOT -1 is -2!)
  • VBScript is not as widely used in web technology as JScript/Javascript, because it is only supported on Windows. XSI is able to support VBScript on the Linux platform, but few developers from a purely linux/unix background are familiar with VBScript.
  • As a basic (sic) language the error handling is primitive (“on error resume next”, “option explicit”)
  • Without good support for creating objects it is harder to write very large scripts with VBScript than JScript and Python.