Where I work, I am a software engineer–so I do a lot of coding. In the (almost) 4 years I have been there, we (another se, and me) have used mostly VB6 for just about everything…and we have several programs that we have written in-house that range in function. Mostly data handling/analyzation/stuff.
Anyway, as Win7 and Vista started spreading around and VB6 does not even run the IDE on those OS’s, we started searching for coding alternatives over a year ago.
The primary choices were:

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