From: claird at Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (Cameron Laird)
Date: 17 May 1999 16:38:54 -0500
Subject: Python vs. VB
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In article <37407bc5.343558265 at news.esinet.net>,
Roy Stephan <roystephan at yahoo.com> wrote:
>My company is mostly a VB shop.  Web Development has gotten away with
>Perl in a corner but we are now being urged to move to ASP.  I am
>pushing for PerlScript interfacing heavily with COM.  
>
>I would like the COM objects to be implimented in Python rather than
>VB.  
>
>I was wondering if people on this list could provide me with some
>amunition against the managment onslaught that will surely ensue in
>favour of all things Microsoft.  
>
>Are there any existing comparisons/benchmarks?  Is there anyone out
>there who has won a similar battle?
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Yes, but most interesting are the pertinent ones.
What matters to your decision-makers beside the
Microsoft label--reliability?  Time-to-develop?
Object orientation?  Performance?  If they are
truly committed to Microsoft in an irreversible
way, there's perhaps little profit in fighting an
unwinnable battle.  If, on the other hand, there's
some existing issue with VB, perhaps we can
address it specifically and concretely.
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