Tim Roberts wrote: > "Mike Cox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >As you may or may not know, Microsoft is discontinuing Visual Basic in favor > >of VB.NET and that means I need to find a new easy programming language. I > >heard that Python is an interpreted language similar to VB. > > This statement is a little bit silly. VB.NET is an interpreted language > which is practically indistinguishable from the old VB. Why on earth would > you choose to reimplement your software in a different language, rather > than just do the simple version upgrade? >
It is a bit OT for a python group, but calling VB.NET virtually indistinguishable from VB isn't fair to either language. The differences between them are so significant that many VB developers have taken to calling VB.Net "visual fred" instead ( http://vb.mvps.org/vfred/breaks.asp ). VB.Net is both more powerful and less convienent than VB. You are right that VBA isn't being discontinued yet. My own interest in learning python is to find a replacement for Excel VBA. I'm a mathematician who likes to throw quick programs together for things like statistical simulations. I liked the ability to get functioning code quickly in VBA, together with the ability to easily generate graphs of the results, etc., but I finally got tired of the slow speed and verbose syntax. I'm hoping that Python (as packaged by Enthought together with various numerical and graphing modules) will be an appropriate replacement. -scattered -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
