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.
What are you on? I'm comparing VB to perl as practical languages for real work (as in what I spent most of yesterday doing for pay). You're saying that they are both of equal power because at root, they can do the same things. I'm saying that perl has more shortcuts than VB does and as such it's more effective (in that sense) as a business programming language. Of course, I didn't use perl because my database doesn't support it and neither does my development team (of which I am a member). That isn't a a quction about what is possible, it's a question of what is possible given other constraints.

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In reply to Re^4: Perl versus VB by diotalevi
in thread Perl versus VB by juo

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