Beginner ASP - Vbscript VS Jscript VS Pscript?

[Nathan Stanford]

Which is better and why in your opinion?

VBscript or Jscript for ASP Pages or even Pscript(Perl Script)?

[Kevin Maloney]

In general the best choice is the one that you're already most familiar with.
However, if you know all of them equally well (or poorly) here are a few
ideas:

VBScript:
+ very short learning curve
+ acceptable (tho not great) error handling
+ most books/online docs/web-based help sites use vbscript
for their examples
- very MS-centric: skills not transferable to other
server-side web technologies
- no object-oriented development capabilities

JavaScript:
+ intermediate learning curve
+ much better cross-platform portability
- very poor (i.e. *no*) error handling (at least under IIS 4)
+ transferable to other (i.e. Unix) server-side environments
+ rudimentary object-oriented development capabilities

PerlScript:
- very long learning curve
- error handling totally sucks
- technology for use within ASP is still maturing
+ very powerful once you get to know it
+ billions of fanatical zealots love it

One technique that works for many people is to use VBScript for all
server-side development, and to use JavaScript for all client-side
development. In addition to being the best-of-both-worlds for ASP development
it really helps clarify in your mind the difference between client and server
code.

Hope this helps...

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