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From: Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: Programming
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2016 21:24:28 +0100
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On 18/07/16 21:12, Ant wrote:
> "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'.

Thank you for that. I appreciate the info. (Really truly!)

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