Visual Basic's relatively strong ranking is interesting; my recollection was while VBA could be an extremely productive language, it was also a very "brittle" o

Visual Basic's relatively strong ranking is interesting; my recollection was while VBA could be an extremely productive language, it was also a very "brittle" one. I recall many VBA projects where I was flying along using my favorite toolkit / framework for a specific domain, until we hit something that wasn't "in the manual" - at which point, peering inside the beast became very hard. So 30% of time spend cranking out useful code and 60% of the time spent clearing some arcane roadblock because a client wanted something that didn't neatly fit the standard. Python's standard library has always seemed much more flexible (and when necessary, comprehensible) in comparison...