stéphane bard wrote: > hello, my boss ask me to prefer windev to python. > I have to argue > <snip> > any idea for a strong argument ?
* WinDev is a virtual unknown outside France. I tried asking a bunch of colleagues about WinDev just now. Nobody has even heard about it. Prior to doing Java I was doing Windows development for years--never a single time I heard about this thing. This can be much more significant than you think--there's a huge difference between developing something in a language that has a lot of websites, books, forum, etc. dedicated to it, and a proprietary IDE. I developed using a proprietary product I won't name here for about 2 years... the support was horrible, and the product SUCKS big time. * Python is known world-wide, there are already many books written by very, very intelligent people--you can "borrow" their brains anytime through their books. There are many online resources at your fingertips if you come across a problem. This group is also chock full of very smart people, some of whom contribute code to Python itself. Wonder how much do you have to pay WinDev for support? (If your boss really doesn't like Python, you might as well use Visual Basic, since it has a lot of free resources, Microsoft newsgroups, and so on.) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
