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.
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Simon Foster
Somewhere in the West of England
解决方案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 wrote in message
news:3f***************@news.dsl.pipex.com...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
"Simon Foster" wrote in message
news:3f***************@news.dsl.pipex.com...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
Visceral Basic is a very old fashioned language which doesn''t hold a candle
to Python. Even Microsoft is soft peddling it. But I''m interested in why
your client prefers VB. If he is just going to run your code without looking
at the internals why does he care? If he is planning to maintain it himself
and doesn''t know Python VB might actually be the right choice. For your sake
I hope not.
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Cy
http://home.rochester.rr.com/cyhome/
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 17:17:32 -0700, 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.
The inly possible use for VB would be for GUI development tools. If this
is a no-GUI app, VB is a waste
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Jay O''Connor
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