Reasons why VBScript blows
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- No associative arrays
- Option Explicit is not on by default
- Too many ways to say "nothing" (Nothing, Empty, Null, "")
- No heredoc syntax
- Error handling based on goto instead of try-catch
- Assignment operator is the same as equivilence operator
- Newline is not treated as whitespace
- No block comments
- No "var += 5" syntax
- It's possible to change between 0-indexed and 1-indexed
- "Dim myArray(n)" allocates n+1 elements (0-n, inclusive) instead of n elements
- Cannot index into a string like an array
- Cannot declare variables as non-variant (100% weak-typed)

- Cannot initialize a variable in its declaration
'Cannot do:
Dim var = 5

'Must do
Dim var
var = 5


- No short-circuit evaluation:
'Cannot do:
If (Not IsNull(varA) And varA = 5) Or varB = 5 Then
  '...do stuff
End If

'Must do:
If Not IsNull(varA) Then
  If varA = 5 Or varB = 5 Then
    '...do stuff
  End If
ElseIf varB = 5 Then 'duplicate condition
  '...do same stuff (duplicate code)
End If

'Or:
Dim flag
flag = False
If Not IsNull(varA) Then
  If varA = 5 Or varB = 5 Then
    flag = True
  End If
ElseIf varB = 5 Then 'duplicate condition
  flag = True
End If
If flag Then
  '...do stuff
End If