No, I don't know who made that site. Probably Rajaa or Scott -- David Rutten Robert McNeel & Associates
On Nov 7, 7:48 pm, taz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David, > > Is this your doing? > > http://en.wiki.mcneel.com/default.aspx/McNeel/RhinoScriptingVsDotNet.... > > taz > > On Nov 7, 5:01 am, David Rutten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hi Oompa, > > > There's an awful lot to say about this, but I'll keep it short. > > VBScript has been around for ages and can be used to automate many > > applications including Rhino, Excel, (Internet) Explorer..... > > It's a scripting language with a very basic feature set. The syntax of > > VBScript is derived from Visual Basic, but it is extremely forgiving. > > > VB.NET syntax is also based on Visual Basic, but that's where the > > overlap with VBScript comes to an end. VB.NET (like all languages that > > work with the DotNET framework, such as C#, C++CLI, J#, IronPython, > > IronDelphi etc. etc) is a fairly new arrival on the programming scene > > and it's completely object oriented. Functions are no longer 'just > > there' (like Sin() or Len(), but instead they are defined by certain > > types (like the Math and String classes: Math.Sin() and > > String.Length). > > > VB.NET is (compared to VBScript): > > - Faster > > - More extensive > > - More complicated > > - Less forgiving > > > It took me a while to switch from VBScript to VB6, and then again it > > took me a few months to switch from VB6 to VB.NET and I'm still > > learning new stuff almost every day (I've been doing this full time > > for almost 4 years now). > > > There is no step-by-step method to go from RhinoScript to Rhino > > DotNET; functions have different names, different behaviour and a > > different philosophy. > > > -- > > David Rutten > > Robert McNeel & Associates > > > ps. One last bit of bad news left: Grasshopper cannot run VBScript > > code.- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text -
