Chewing one's arm off to avoid VBScript (was RE: Serious privacy leak in Python for Windows)

[David LeBlanc]

On Thu, 17 Jan 2002 17:45:23 +0100, "Alex Martelli" <aleax at aleax.it>
wrote:

<snip>
>Pragmatically, VBScript's greatest issue is that it's dead: Microsoft
>has announced quite a while ago that there will never be another
>"Visual basic scripting edition" -- rather, the scripting abilities
>will be rolled into the for-$$$ professional VB product.  Python, on
>the other hand, is VERY much alive -- bugs will keep getting fixed,
>new platforms supported as they become important, and so on.
>
>
>Alex

I wonder if VBS' demise isn't due to the fact that even on IIS,
Javascript usage dominated VBS by far. I heard that > 80% of all
coding is/was done using Javascript in preference to VBS.

Dave LeBlanc