Can Python replace Visual Basic? Should it?...and generalities : )

[Alex Martelli]

"Christian Tanzer" <tanzer at swing.co.at> wrote in message
news:mailman.983946668.9428.python-list at python.org...
    [snip]
> No matter how clear an idea you have of what you're going to do, the
> final code is not insignificant and it is the one thing which will be
> there to be maintained for a long time. I have a lot of sympathy for
> the XP position that the code is the only thing that really counts.

...as long as you include the TESTING code as well, of course (if you
don't have more SLOC's of testing code [including unit and acceptance
tests] in an XP project's deliverables, than you have of implementation,
you must be doing something pretty peculiar indeed...).


Alex