Very little difference, but somehow I don't think that's what you meant. You see, in my opinion People who say Perl isn't a "true" language, are guilty of much the same thing as those who think VB can solve all their problems. Granted, I may have been more strongly worded on the second issue (I suppose personal histories have shaped that), but both are closed-minded, and unproductive.

Find the useful tool.

--- perchance
p.s. I don't have anything in particular against VB, more against bosses who extoll without cause.