stéphane bard wrote:
> hello, my boss ask me to prefer windev to python.
> I have to argue
>
> - python work on multiple platform (linux, mac, windows)
> A good point but it didn't interest him. Because
> we want to choose a language for prototyping.
> So multi platform is not enough.
>
> - python and windev are fast to develop
>
> - windev as a good IDE, python? boa-constructor is ok with wxpython
>
> - python is open source (that's not an argument for my boss, sorry
> it's a boss ...)
>
> any idea for a strong argument ?
Well, this seems to me like a "Is it faster to New York, or by train"
kind of question. "WinDev" is not a language, Python is. "WinDev" is a
tool which includes a language. At least make sure you are comparing
similar things ("Python and the WinDev language" or "Komodo and WinDev"
or "Idle and WinDev").
Note, I have never been successful with explaining this to any of my
employers that didn't just trust me on these decisions. I have a nasty
habit of saying things like:
"'Visual Basic' is not a language; 'Visual Basic 5.0' is a language
with a vague similarity to the language 'Visual Basic 6.0'."
and:
"SQL is not a language; it is (at best) a family of languages."
While these statements do mean something to experienced programmers,
they seem to contradict everything a power-point wielding IT executive
who understands everything "from a 5000 foot point of view" knows to
be true. I really wish I knew how to explain these things politically.
--Scott David Daniels
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