Re: Best Scripting Environment Ever. Best Desktop Technology Ever.

I am curious to read how javascript works as a scripting language.  And when
the term scripting is used, does that imply some sort of operating system or
database domain commanding environment?

-Steve

On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 7:27 PM, Mike <[email protected]> wrote:

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> IE (even as far back as 5.0) + HTML + JavaScript +
> Scripting.FileSystemObject on Windows.
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> It has been right under our noses all these years. Just like AJAX was.
>
> I used to do ASP.NET <http://asp.net/>, but now I do a lot of work on very
> walled off,
> locked down systems, and am often in need of a scripting language.
> Usually I end up doing something "creative". But recently I had the
> good fortune of being truly checkmated. I had only a very walled off
> Windows 2003 machine to work with. But this turned out to be great
> because instead of loading Powershell or Visual Studio, it forced me
> to try writing a utility using JavaScript and HTML. It was
> outstandingly productive. Is there any simpler *desktop* UI
> technology than HTML in a browser? And any more powerful scripting
> language than JavaScript? How could I have missed this all these
> years?
>
> It is amazing how far backwards we went with ASP.NET <http://asp.net/>,
> WPF etc.
>
> Mike
> 
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