2008/9/28 Aaron Castironpi Brady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Before I tried wxFormBuilder, I imagined that C# would be vastly > faster to develop than Python, for anything requiring any non-trivial > graphical interface. I've done extensive VB, so I can attest to that > personally. It is not.
I'm confused about where VB comes in -- I find VB just *slightly* harder than INTERCAL. C# I find fairly easy. > You can come up with examples that favor either. But the opposite of > statistical is anecdotal. Sorry again. Yes, it's anecdotal, but development time isn't just about how fast the program is to type (otherwise, why aren't we all using APL?) > The last time I 'checked in' at your post, your claim was "an hour or > so" vs. "ages". Hence my responses. You could probably sneak by by > claiming a factor of *two*, but if you were exaggerating, please say > so at any time. Ok. I was exaggerating when I said that VB was harder than INTERCAL. It's marginally easier. As for the program I was working on, I worked for over a day on it in Python, and did it in about an hour in C#, although in fairness I didn't forget all the thinking I'd done on the previous day. I have a lot more Python experience than C# experience, but don't claim to be a guru in either. And no, I don't work two hour days (unfortunately). I have indicated that the GUI wasn't the only issue; in C# it was just easy in that case to find all the library bits I needed to in order to accomplish the task. It isn't always so. > on this, that it's "pretty generally applicable" I'm with you on that. > I do not believe that C# is pretty generally applicable. I agree on that, but *only* because it's a proprietary language with imperfect support once you move away from the .net platform. It's a generally applicable language to .net, but .net is not a general platform. > fact, outside of my VB, COM, and MFC experience, you could say I have > no clue. Very tongue in cheek.) If you see C# as being in any way related to VB, it's no wonder you're down on it! > Python has a lot of things C# doesn't. Can we agree on that? And C# has things that Python doesn't (such as static typing). Can we agree on that, too? -- Tim Rowe -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
