VBScript

ALSO CALLED: Visual Basic Script, Visual Basic Scripting Edition, Microsoft VBScript, VBS
DEFINITION: VBScript is an interpreted script 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:Netscape's JavaScriptSun Microsystem's TclThe UNIX-derived PerlIBM's REXXIn general, script languages are easier and faster to code in than the more  … 
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VBSCRIPT DEFINITION (continued): …  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.VBScript is Microsoft's answer to Netscape's popular JavaScript. Both are designed to work with an interpreter that comes with a Web browser - that is, at the user or client end of the Web client/server session. VBScript is designed for use with Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser together with other programming that can be run at the client, including ActiveX controls, automation servers, and Java applets. Although Microsoft … 
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