Visual Basic and VB Script were never any good working with large arrays and lookup tables. So the Microsoft ASP team decided to create a component that will be the equivalent to the Perl hash, or associative array. It first came out in 1996 as part of VB Script 2 and was added to the VB Scripting run-time library (scrrun.dll) to enable VBScript programmers to use associative arrays. Now you can develop in Visual Basic or VB Script just as you would in JScript and Perl.
