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Originally posted by cooldude_i06
JScript is almost exactly like Javascript, and I think every programmer should have experience using javascript. Once you learn "real" languages like javascript, php, c++, java, etc.. you will find BASIC very annoying.
Basic IS a real language.... don't get me started on that....
It is not because someone has problems with a new syntax that a language becomes useless or not good to teach programming.
It is NOT the used language which is the cause of bad programming behaviours!!!!!! (in fact I see just as much crap from other beginning programmers in other languages than Basic)....
Oh, and VBScript would have been a more powerfull choice for a scripting language than JScript actually. Everything you can do in JScript you can do in VBScript and even more stuff... JScript doesn't even support different variable types (except a very few), not to mention it passes variables always by value, etc... etc... etc... If there is a 'bad' programming language to learn programming from it would be in fact JScript.
(and it would be those exact c++ programmers who would be complaining if it was vbscript which was been choosen, because it would be them who wouldn't be used to the syntax instead. Would that make c++ a bad base to learn programming... I don't think so)
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