Perl may be *older* than ASP (which is itself looking a bit long in the tooth and MS will shortly abandon it for its bastard child, "ASP.NET")
It doesn't mean it's obsolete.
There are a lot of people still using Perl.
True, many people with larger systems do tend to go for other programming languages, for example, Java which I think is better for "Programming in the large".
Nevertheless, I really don't think VBScript has much on Perl, and if as a Perl programmer you switch to VBScript, there will be a lot you miss.
Also, VBScript is very much a special purpose language originally created for use in IE or ASP, which has relatively few general purpose functions built-in.
Perl on the other hand has modules for just about everything.
Sure, you can use COM classes in VBScript, but then you have to work out COM (No, Just DONT BOTHER) which sucks monkey balls (Excuse my language this evening)
I think the only real thing that VBScript has going for it is code legibility, and then only for small programs.
