Need of scripting language

[deepali_more]

What is the need of new scripting language in Qlikview, when there are already so many scripting languages in market?

[oknotsen]

What "new" scripting language? It has been the same one for, what, 20+ years?

[deepali_more]

i mean to say QV has its own scripting language..RIght??

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.

This was the question asked to me in an interview.

and i could not answer it

[marcus_sommer]

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).

- Marcus

[oknotsen · Accepted solution]

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.

QlikView (well... QuikView): 1993

JavaScript: 1995

VBScript: 1996

(source: Wikipedia)