Python versus VB

[John J. Lee]

Re: Python versus VB

"Frithiof Andreas Jensen" <frithiof.jense n@removethis.te d.ericsson.dk> writes:
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> "Jeff Hinrichs" <jlh@cox.net> wrote in message
> news:BUGob.1574 5$d87.8065@okep read05...[/color]
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> Ahem - The point I was trying to make was: It all Depends what you need to
> *do* does it not?
>
> If, say, all the OP needs to achieve is some massaging of strings between
> one MS-office app, say Access - for example to circumvent that entirely
> stupid and undocumented by MS 1 second minimum time resolution hardcoded
> into Access, and maybe a MS-Word form then certainly it will be easier to
> hack something up with the tools that are already lurking inside the
> platform IMO.[/color]
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Not if you don't already know about where that stuff lives, and some
minimal amount of VB. It could well be easier in Python in that case,
as the overhead in boilerplate code is small.


John

[Simon Foster]

Re: Python versus VB

On Mon, 3 Nov 2003 01:50:24 -0800, "Michael Geary"
<Mike@DeleteThi s.Geary.com> wrote:
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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.[/color]
>>
>> Thanks to everyone for their comments, I think that should
>> give me enough to be going on with.[/color]
>
>Just to add one more comment...
>
>I was one of the original authors of VB, and *I* wouldn't use VB for a text
>processing program. :-)
>
>There's one exception: For a program that had to run as a Word or Excel
>macro, then sure, I'd consider using VBA. But for a standalone program, no
>way!
>
>-Mike
>[/color]

That should just about clinch it!!

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Simon Foster
Somewhere in the West of England

[Y2KYZFR1]

Re: Python versus VB

simon@uggs.demo n.co.uk (Simon Foster) wrote in message news:<3fa057e2. 14061399@news.d sl.pipex.com>.. .[color=blue]
> 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.[/color]

if there is no gui required then Python is a no brainer. Unless the
support and maintance staff refuse to learn Python.