Python versus VB

[Simon Foster]

On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 00:17:32 GMT, simon at uggs.demon.co.uk (Simon
Foster) wrote:

>
>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.

Thanks to everyone for their comments,  I think that should give me
enough to be going on with.
--
Simon Foster
Somewhere in the West of England