VBScript - Programming language

VBScript is a programming language created in 1996.

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VBScript ("Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition") is an Active Scripting language developed by Microsoft that is modeled on Visual Basic. It allows Microsoft Windows system administrators to generate powerful tools for managing computers with error handling, subroutines, and other advanced programming constructs. It can give the user complete control over many aspects of their computing environment. Read more on Wikipedia...

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There are at least 6,076 VBScript repos on GitHub
Early development of VBScript happened in Microsoft
The Google BigQuery Public Dataset GitHub snapshot shows 327 users using VBScript in 339 repos on GitHub
There are 916 members in the VBScript subreddit
Explore VBScript snippets on Rosetta Code
VBScript on HOPL
VBScript ranks #34 in the TIOBE Index
CodeMirror package for syntax highlighting VBScript
Pygments supports syntax highlighting for VBScript
Indeed.com has 142 matches for "vbscript developer".
See also: (10 related languages) ASP, Visual Basic, PowerShell, JScript, Batchfile, Regular Expressions, JavaScript, MUMPS, Applescript, FastTrack Scripting Host

Example from the Hello World Collection:

' Hello World in VBScript (Windows Scripting Host)
msgbox "Hello, World!"

Example from Wikipedia:

<% Option Explicit
 %><!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
     "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
 <html>
 	<head>
 		<title>VBScript Example</title>
 	</head>
 	<body>
        <div><%
 		' Grab current time from Now() function.
                ' An '=' sign occurring after a context switch (<%) is shorthand
                ' for a call to the Write() method of the Response object.
 		Dim timeValue = Now %>
 		The time, in 24-hour format, is
                <%=Hour(timeValue)%>:<%=Minute(timeValue)%>:<%=Second(timeValue)%>.
        </div>
 	</body>
 </html>

Language features

Feature	Supported	Example	Token
Integers	✓	' [0-9]+
Floats	✓	' [0-9]+\.[0-9]*(e[+-]?[0-9]+)?
Hexadecimals	✓	' &h[0-9a-f]+
Line Comments	✓	' A comment	'
Comments	✓
Semantic Indentation	X