I think the net effect is that VB can get you to the same (mostly) place as perl. You just have to work much, much harder
That's a non-statement. Perl is implemented in C, which is compiled to machine code, so by definition both C as well as machine code can get you to the same place as Perl. The same applies for most any non-crippled language. I'm not sure anyone would be insane enough to try machine code for most of their tasks, though.. :) (And that's not to say I even hate machine code - written in assembly, anyway. When I do need it, I love it - getting another 400% speed-up after you did all your algorithm homework is great. I've done a bit of low-level graphics in my time and enjoyed that a lot.)

Makeshifts last the longest.

In reply to Re^3: Perl versus VB by Aristotle
in thread Perl versus VB by juo

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