ALSO CALLED: Visual Basic Script, Visual Basic Scripting Edition, Microsoft VBScript, and VBS DEFINITION: VBScript is an interpretedscript language from Microsoft that is a subset of its Visual Basic programming language designed for interpretation by Web browsers. VBScript can be compared to other script languages that can be used on the Web, including:
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In general, script languages are easier and faster to code in than the more structured, compiled languages such as C and C++ and are ideal for smaller programs of limited capability or that can reuse and tie together existing compiled programs.
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