> Don't ever resort to Visual Basic. > If you think something would be easier in VB then ask us > and we will tell you how to do it in Python. > VB is not a good language to learn because it > is the complete opposite of every other programming language.
Not really true anymore. The original VB had a lot of the bad stuff from early BASIC but VB.NET is a very capable modern programming language. I was surprised just how good even the basic VBScript is. Certainly for messing with WSH/COM I find VBScript much easier than Python. > I really can't think of a reason to use VB over Python, C++ or Java. Well VB is much easier to learn than C++ or Java and much safer to use than C++. Python is a better general purpose language than VB but there are places where VB simply gets on with the job where Python needs some nursemaiding Alan G Author of the Learn to Program web tutor http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
