Hi,

Just to keep this a perl thread I would like to say that I have hated almost every time I used VB and loved almost every time I used [htp://wxperl.sf.net|wxPerl] (perl bindings for the wxwidgets.com cross-platform framework).

Granted VB has a nice forms designer, which makes me think wx's sizers approach is sometimes overdone. But basically instead of using a "scripting environment for com objects" you might enjoy trying it with perl. Not to redo stuff but for new projects.

Anyway as I understand it from far away, the (ultra cool) Haskell target is actually there to solve the bootstrapping problem and will be rewritten in perl 6.

I think you pose an extremely good question though in that a VB6 to Parrot compiler might make you quite rich.

All of which are not great reasons to ditch VB. Another thread somewhere else had people mentioning other basic languages out there, like Realbasic, openoffice.org's basic, and another one I forget. One of them lets you import VB projects.

In reply to Re: Visual Basic to Perl transition by mattr
in thread Visual Basic to Perl transition by szabgab

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