VisualBasic or JavaScript for bionet users

[Don Gilbert]

Javascript is more portable, more of a non-proprietary standard, and 
more likely to be used in a variety of programs including non-Microsoft 
software.  There are many biologists who don't use Microsoft software much.

- don

In article <6iau6o$4le$1 at supernews.com>, JMonahan <monahan at avigen.com> wrote:
>I am in the process of writing a software application for genomics/bionet
>users. I will be embedding a scripting interface and am trying to decide if
>I should go with a VisualBasic or JavaScript dialog.  On one hand Basic is
>well known to even Microsoft Office users as a scripting language. 


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