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by tjsnyder 5474 days ago
It looks like google has reimplemented VB6 for javascript.
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neovive 5474 days ago
This is the first time I've seen Apps Script and I was thinking along the same lines. It's like VB6 with all of the Google Cloud goodness built-in. The GMail API looks especially promising.
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grandalf 5474 days ago
The glue that powers more small business systems than anyone could ever imagine. Wow this is pretty huge.
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omouse 5474 days ago
At least Javascript is a proper language (even though it has a few warts). It's a scheme after my own lisp/
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asnyder 5474 days ago
Wouldn't Visual Basic for Applications be a more appropriate comparison?
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