Ya know, Radar Bob... I don't agree with you on much at all... and I don't mean anything personal by disagreeing with these points, I'm just offering my two cents for what they're worth!
First of all, it's just a simple fact that ASP is much easier to use with VBScript (because it has a WHOLE LOT more documentation... period!).
And as for what "browsers" support.. yeah - javascript - but that has nothing to do with server-side scripting, since the results of server-side processing are sent as PURE HTML and Client-side script, and you can (and I do) send plenty of javascripts to the client-side that include ASP variables.
I don't think by "limiting your programmers to one language (or languages that have similar syntax)" that you're doing them a *favor* at all... programming is programming - the syntax may change, but the logic behind it doesn't.
JavaScript is a standard not controlled by Microsoft
I can't argue with that one too much, lol! If Microsoft controlled all standards we'd be constantly downloading security patches for everything. ;)
Thinking in JavaScript is much more like C, C++, Java than VBScript is.
I agree to a point... that point is that they have similar syntax- however, they "think" pretty much the same to me... it's all logic isn't it? i.e.:
if(1==1){
// do something
}
else{
// do something else
}
If 1 = 1 Then
'do something
Else
'do something else
End If
That's a basic example, but I'm sure you get my point!
Proliferating multiple languages in a large coding shop causes more problems than it solves - in the long run
I have to completely disagree with that. I think people should be encouraged to expand their horizons!
Not to mention it's the application, and what you're trying to accomplish with that application, that should be foremost in your thinking at that point - basically use whatever language is most appropriate to make the application work efficiently. If your programmers need to learn another language to do that, then they need to be allotted a *fair* amount of time for research. :D
P.S. If anyone (Spudhead?) is interested I have improved upon (and will continue to be improving upon) the pretty lame ASP Quick Bar plugin for HTML-KIT.
If you want to see what I've done so far, and perhaps offer additional improvements, check out my website, I have a download of the "ASPVenom" (like the snake, ASP, ya know?) plugin there. ;)