Can Python replace Visual Basic? Should it?

[Brad Bollenbach]

"Gerhard Häring" <gerhard.nospam at bigfoot.de> wrote in message
news:3AA507D3.E384EF2 at bigfoot.de...
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> Face it, most VB users aren't exactly star programmers. If I were
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That's a sweeping generalization, that I'd be very careful about making, to
say the least.

I'll certainly admit that I've only got about 7 months worth of experience
in "the industry", but of all the programmers I know of that had more than a
passing interest in VB (in other words, they liked and used it enough that
one might refer to them as "A VB Programmer(TM)"), at LEAST three (of the
six that I'm thinking of) were extremely bright and creative hackers. From
my perspective, I would be proud to be as good as they are!

The other three were also very very good, but maybe didn't "like" it enough
so much as they saw it as something that pays their bills. Even still, they
were very productive and useful, and found solutions quickly. In fact, the
only really VB lusers I've encountered seem to be via internet forms (like
IRC).

That said though, the stereotype of VB programmers all being idiots is
extremely common among Linux and Unix users, who, in many cases have almost
no knowledge of the tool, and would look silly themselves if throw into a
large project that used it ("silly" as in far from the creative geniuses
they would seem to indicate they are).


Brad