Perl

• Pro: It's free.
• Pro: It's open source.
• Pro: It has an extremely helpful user community.
• Pro: CPAN!
• Pro: It's portable.
• Pro: It's a powerfully expressive language.

I don't really have anything to say about VB as I don't use it and never will. The very fact that it is completely proprietary is enough reason for me to ignore it.

-sauoq
"My two cents aren't worth a dime.";