Women in Technology

Article:		VBScript or Perl?
Subject:		Why not JScript?
Date:		2003-11-23 07:29:16
From:		anonymous2
Response to: Why not JScript?
In a WSH environment JScript support is limitted. Prototype-based inheritance just doesn't work, so this renders JScript useless. I haven't worked with WSH extensive, so I might be wrong.

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• Why not JScript?
  2003-12-31 02:19:07  anonymous2 [View]
  
  
  Um, I don't see how JScript is useless? VBScript (and VB for that matter) only supports Object-Based programming, and through COM you cannot derive objects from one another anyhow. So, I don't see how lack of inheritence makes a difference when it comes to interfacing with COM libraries such as WMI, ADSI, Office, CDO, DAO, ADO, etc.
  
  FYI, The newer JScript.NET (ECMAScript ver 4) supports true inheritence, but that's a different topic...
  
  - Joaquin M.

• Why not JScript?
  2003-12-01 13:44:39  anonymous2 [View]
  
  
  You are wrong. JScript support in WSH is not limited. Prototype-based inheritance does work.
  
  For WSH I tend to use .wsf files and mix JScript and Perl. I like using JScript's exception handling especially when using COM objects. If I need to spawn a process I prefer to use Perl to open a pipe instead of using the WshScriptExec object.