Christian R. schrieb: > Hello, > > Brand new to this list, I've not found a quick way to search the > archives, and this is not a technical question. > > I've just been hired at a digital signage company. They use VBScript > for simple-to-medium scripting. I've abandoned it about 8 years ago. I > want to convince the manager and the two programmers to switch to > Python. My main arguments for Python: > - Faster > - More powerful > - Simpler syntax > - More up-to-date, evolving > - Modularity > - Lots of open source modules > - Better for development of "tools" (a goal stated by the mgr)
- Heavily used by lots of large companies and major players like Google, NASA, CERN ... Check out http://www.python.org/about/success/ > Not so sure: > - Easier to integrate/translate with/into C#, which is what is used > there for complex development. Am I right? Well, there are IronPython and PythonDotNET. The former ist a full blown implementation of Python in .NET sponsored by Microsoft and part of the next release of Visual Studio. The later is a bridge between .NET and CPython. Christian -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
