Python for VB6 programmers (was Re: Complexity of standard Python data structures)

[yaipa h.]

"George Kinney" <gk_2345 at yahoo.com> wrote in message news:<o1pna.3380$lf3.595806 at cletus.bright.net>...
> "Alex Martelli" <aleax at aleax.it> wrote in message
> news:Wrena.33096$T34.876856 at news2.tin.it...
> > need to understand dotNET to profit from this book".  I don't know if
> > there are substantial slices of programmers still stuck on VB5, VB4, ...,
> > and so on backwards, that might be scared off by the "6" in the title.
> 
> Believe it or not, I am the not so proud possessor of an application written
> in a mish-mash of VB5 and dBase.  Its creator claims that he can't upgrade
> to VB6, because VB6 is broken.  Yes, it is 8 years old and the same
> half-finished
> POS it was in '95, but he just won't budge.
> 
> The beautiful thing about it is his own insistance on antiquated tools gave
> me the
> argument I needed convince management to let me re-implement this particular
> package...in python. :)
> 
> What's the fastest way to convert a VB drone to python in my opinion?
> Make them use python for a project, big or small,  they'll never go back.


+1 ( or maybe +(n) ) ;-)