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"Richard Heathfield" wrote:
> On 18/07/16 18:28, BartC wrote:
>> On 18/07/2016 17:01, Richard Heathfield wrote:
>>> [...] So I'd hate to have to be the
>>> one to explain to a newbie how to get IIS working on their machine just
>>> so that they can get some JavaScript experience.
>>
>> That's simple enough. Here's an on-line Javascript interpreter:
>>
>> http://math.chapman.edu/~jipsen/js/
>>
>> And here's the first program I tried (based on modifying the given
>> example rather than any knowledge of Javascript):
>>
>> writeln("Hello, World!");
>
> Sure, but is it really satisfactory to /require/ an Internet connection
> as part of the process of learning how to write a program?

You don't need IIS or an internet connection to run script programs on
Windsows. Use the Windows Script Host to run JS, VBS, WSF or WSH files.
Run them from the GUI or the command line using 'wscript' or 'cscript'.