XPost: alt.comp.freeware, alt.comp.os.windows-10   
   From: mayayana@invalid.nospam   
      
   "R.Wieser"  wrote   
      
   | Why did you xpost this to "alt.msdos.batch" ?   Nothing in your post is   
   | related to either DOS, or Batch.   
   |   
      
     I think that demonstrates 2 common misunderstandings.   
   One is that VBS is VB. The other is that anything interpreted   
   is a "batch" file. Maybe that gets mixed up because there   
   was never really a name for it. In the beginning it was all   
   just DOS and sometimes people would automate that with   
   BAT files.   
     People write "batch" files these days and get very angry if   
   you call it DOS, even if it is. But even the word "batch" really   
   just indicates an automated operation to do something   
   repeatedly, which is not necessarily what script is doing.   
      
     To make matters more confusing, on Linux they call their   
   interpreters shells and refer to commandline as shell scripting,   
   while in Windows the shell (Explorer GUI) is everything except   
   commandline. Meanwhile, Microsoft named their DOS-esque,   
   Linux-wannabe, one-executable-for-every-command monstrosity   
   "PowerShell", adopting the Linux nomenclature.   
      
       A third common misconception is that   
   interpreted code and commandline are "bare metal"   
   computer use, which is like thinking that a fireplace   
   is the most efficient way to heat a house, simply because   
   it requires the most work.   
      
     My XP computer has a clock in the lower right that tells   
   me hours and minutes at a glance. I also have a clock on   
   the shelf over my computer. And Scheduled Tasks is   
   completely disabled. So I don't have to write any code to   
   find out the time. Ah, the good old days. :)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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