Visual Basic

**Amarjit** · 08-02-2003, 10:27 AM

VB's crap, for most demanding applications, the programs run incredibly slow create huge executables and the "unreal" language limits your power, for example, you can't access the system resources, so it's pretty useless, something like Norton Utilities could not be produced in BASIC. And finally, good games can't be made in VB anyway

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For all you codist C++ bastards! SUCK IT!! LOL!!

Okay then, why don't you go straight down and start programming in machine code, I'd like to see you do that ...

**monkeyhead** · 08-02-2003, 11:02 AM

we are goin a bit off topic arnt we1

**Supernode** · 08-02-2003, 03:47 PM

OK, Ihate BV now! Or not? I have the cd:s or visual studio.net 2003, wpould I install c++ and nothing more?
2800$

**Xilo** · 08-02-2003, 03:58 PM

Just install all the crap in Visual Studio...

**lynx** · 08-02-2003, 05:55 PM

Delphi.

I've seen a fully functional media player created in 30 seconds.
Ok, nothing too flash about it, probably didn't support drag&drop etc, but it worked.

The guy who did it in 30 seconds was something of an expert, but most of us on the seminar could have done the same in about 2 mins.

Easy as VB, no massive program overheads, teaches you correct programming skills too.

**Xilo** · 08-02-2003, 06:00 PM

Never tried messing with Delphi... How does it compare to something like c++?

**lynx** · 08-02-2003, 06:35 PM

Easier to use IMO, but of course you need to learn pascal as the underlying language. Pascal is traditionally more structured and less ambiguous than c (and therefore c++), and consequently gives you tighter progs with fewer possibilities for things like memory leaks, uninitialised data/pointers etc.