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    <p>I find myself avoid having to use <strong>VBScript/Visual Basic 6</strong> the most.</p> <p>I use primarily C++, javascript, Java for most tasks and dabble in ruby, scala, erlang, python, assembler, perl when the need arises.</p> <p>I, like most other reasonably minded polyglots/programmers, strongly feel that you have to use the right tool for the job - this requires you to understand your domain and to understand your tools.</p> <p>My issue with VBscript and VB6 is when I use them to script windows or office applications (the right domain for them) - i find myself struggling with the language (they fall short of being the right tool).</p> <p>VBScript's lack of easy to use native data structures (such as associative containers/maps) and other quirks (such as set for assignment to objects) is a needless and frustrating annoyance, especially for a scripting language. Contrast it with Javascript (which i now use to program wscript/cscript windows and do activex automation scripts) which is far more expressive. While there are certain things that work better with vbscript (such as passing arrays back and forth from COM objects is slightly easier, although it is easier to pass event handlers into COM components with jscript), I am still surprised by the amount of coders that still use vbscript to script windows - I bet if they wrote the same program in both languages they would find that jscript works with you much more than vbscript, because of jscript's native hash data types and closures.</p> <p>Vb6/VBA, though a little better than vbscript in general, still has many similar issues where (for their domain) they require much more boiler plate to do simple tasks than what I would like and have seen in other scripting languages.</p>
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    1. COVB6 is not a scripting language. It's a complete language, including support for classes and interfaces. Granted, it's not OO (no inheritance of behavior, only has interface inheritance), but it's really not that bad as a language. OTOH, there are a large number of really bad pieces of code written in it, and only a small number of good pieces of code.
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    2. COI never said VB6 is only a scripting language (what exactly defines a pure scripting language is another discussion ;) I said that I have used VB6 to script/macro-control office applications. And as far as being a complete language (Turing complete), even assembler is a complete language - it's just not very expressive - and in my experience, based on programming idioms i am used to, VB6 could be more expressive and less annoying. But there are many people who feel the same about C++ and for some reason (that may be worth investigating more thoroughly someday) I don't ;)
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    3. COI gotta disagree, I can't think of a single thing I have ever wanted to do with VBA and not been able to. That kind of read like, "I don't like VBA because I can't figure out how to do stuff:)) NOI, as a C++ guy I'm sure you can bury me any day of the week. But still VBA can do a ton in very few lines that take other languages 10 times as many.
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