I guess that many of you are or have been in the past in a situation similar to mine. After having programmed a somehow nice project, one has to explain its characteristics to an audience that has mostly (and also superficially) worked on Windows-based platforms using Visual Basic (ie, I think of Perl programmers who work for bosses who just need their work done but want a detailed explanation of what's going on).

My immediate reaction has been turning out to a VB book to try to find analogies, in order to let them understand the application internals (It's a CGI-driven program that modifies and reads data from a MySQL database using simple GET requests from the client; then, it reads the answers from the server through Data::DumpXML. It also uses GTK+ to create a simple GUI).

The question is, do you have any ideas on how I could possibly compare VB to Perl? (ie, the modules stuff, packages, GTK+...) I have thought of OCXs, but since I've not really worked with VB _that_ much I'd rather ask the wise monks out there who could point me in the right direction.

It would also be interesting to hear about other stories regarding this problem from all of you who need to explain your projects directly to clients/colleagues/bosses/whatever.

Many thanks for any help you can give me!

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In reply to Explaining a Perl project to a VB-bound audience by Lasker

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