MS has allowed scripting for a very long time and has provided mechanisms for it for a very long time as well. It was simplistic, underpowered, and in some ways outright crippled, but even early versions of DOS could be scripted out of the box. Later versions of DOS included QBasic, which was a trimmed-down version of QuickBasic.
Some very complex programs have been written in QB (up to and including Wolfenstein-class games). Some fairly complex ones were written in DOS batch files with the help of additional utilities. I wrote a number of utility programs which used the two together.
Windows has had access to most of the DOS batch language, the Windows Scripting Host, and MS has included Perl as part of their resource kit for Windows. They provide the C# runtime without royalties, paid for much of the development for ActiveState's Perl distro, and provide test environments to CPAN developers.
MS prefers to make money selling development tools. Windows doesn't have the sort of gratis support for programmers that Linux or the BSDs do. It's going a bit far to say that Microsoft and scripting are contradictory, though.
In reply to Re^2: 2009 Microsoft Scripting Games ditching Perl
by mr_mischief
in thread 2009 Microsoft Scripting Games ditching Perl
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