topic Re: Need of scripting language in QlikView https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Need-of-scripting-language/m-p/1014159#M936668 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>i mean to say QV has its own scripting language..RIght??</P><P>so wanted to know when there are VB Script, Java Scipt etc. scripting language then why cant we use the same ...and why to use the one specific to QV.</P><P></P><P>This was the question asked to me in an interview. <IMG src="https://community.qlik.com/legacyfs/online/emoticons/sad.png" /></P><P>and i could not answer it <IMG src="https://community.qlik.com/legacyfs/online/emoticons/sad.png" /></P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 24 Feb 2016 07:48:01 GMT deepali_more 2016-02-24T07:48:01Z Need of scripting language https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Need-of-scripting-language/m-p/1014157#M936666 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>What is the need of new scripting language in Qlikview, when there are already so many scripting languages in market?</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 24 Feb 2016 04:39:18 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Need-of-scripting-language/m-p/1014157#M936666 deepali_more 2016-02-24T04:39:18Z Re: Need of scripting language https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Need-of-scripting-language/m-p/1014158#M936667 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>What "new" scripting language? It has been the same one for, what, 20+ years?</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 24 Feb 2016 07:46:01 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Need-of-scripting-language/m-p/1014158#M936667 oknotsen 2016-02-24T07:46:01Z Re: Need of scripting language https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Need-of-scripting-language/m-p/1014159#M936668 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>i mean to say QV has its own scripting language..RIght??</P><P>so wanted to know when there are VB Script, Java Scipt etc. scripting language then why cant we use the same ...and why to use the one specific to QV.</P><P></P><P>This was the question asked to me in an interview. <IMG src="https://community.qlik.com/legacyfs/online/emoticons/sad.png" /></P><P>and i could not answer it <IMG src="https://community.qlik.com/legacyfs/online/emoticons/sad.png" /></P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 24 Feb 2016 07:48:01 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Need-of-scripting-language/m-p/1014159#M936668 deepali_more 2016-02-24T07:48:01Z Re: Need of scripting language https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Need-of-scripting-language/m-p/1014160#M936669 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I think the answer is quite simple - no existing script language could cover the needs of qlikview and therefore they developed their own (whereby they didn't to reinvent the wheel and they adopt many things from other languages).</P><P></P><P>- Marcus</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 24 Feb 2016 16:23:10 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Need-of-scripting-language/m-p/1014160#M936669 marcus_sommer 2016-02-24T16:23:10Z Re: Need of scripting language https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Need-of-scripting-language/m-p/1014161#M936670 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Ask the interviewer how he got his dates wrong. Ask him why JavaScript or VBScript was still needed when there was the script that QlikView uses.</P><P></P><P>QlikView (well... QuikView): 1993</P><P>JavaScript: 1995</P><P>VBScript: 1996</P><P>(source: Wikipedia)</P><P><IMG src="https://community.qlik.com/legacyfs/online/emoticons/wink.png" /></P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 24 Feb 2016 19:34:23 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Need-of-scripting-language/m-p/1014161#M936670 oknotsen 2016-02-24T19:34:23Z