Python versus VB

[Jegenye 2001 Bt]

Text processing with VB?  Dear me...

Well, try to explain to them how nice Python is and how ugly VB is. :-)
Python is portable, VB is not.
Python is easily readable -> maintainable  vs VB which is..

my two cents...

Miklós

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Simon Foster <simon at uggs.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
news:3fa057e2.14061399 at news.dsl.pipex.com...
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> I am meeting with a potential client next week to
> discuss starting a new project.  His preference is for
> VB whereas I would prefer Python for obvious reasons ;-)
>
> Could anybody come up with a short list of the pros and
> cons of the two languages (I am not terribly familiar
> with the strengths/weaknesses of VB).  This will be a
> general-purpose text-processing type application with no
> GUI required.
>
> --
> Simon Foster
> Somewhere in the West of England