Cameron,
I personally found VB to be confusing! In fact it was weird words
like 'dim' which prompted me to stop trying to learn it and make the jump to
Delphi back when I first started! But beyond that Pascal's structured file
system and it's coding requirements certainly make it a lot easier to begin
creating worthwhile applications much faster. Rules that were necessary and
forced one to consider and make use of coding structures and practices stick
with you and make everything so much easier, it's difficult to understand or
follow your reasoning here!
Recently I've picked up a copy of VS 2003 and the Chrome add-on
which makes it possible to use Pascal in a NET environment without the
alterations or constraints that Delphi's NET imposes, and I did this because
I had begun feeling a bit dissatisfied with Borland's newer IDE's. It's
hard enough trying to learn a new programming paradigm let alone a new
language like C# at the same time, and again Pascal has come to the rescue
simply because it's structure provides one with an indelible template that
is much easier to follow...like keeping your crayola colors inside the
lines! <G> C++ nor C# seem to have ANY structure, and you have to squint at
the code to make ant sense of it! Not only that, but because it has no
structure to speak of, every other piece of source code I come across seems
different!
Now that Borland finally got Delphi 2005 up to speed, at least for
the Win32 platform, I am using it exclusively for Windows programming again,
and VS w/Chrome I am continuing to learn NET with.
I think you really need to take a little more time with Delphi
and/or Pascal and get to know the language a bit better before making ANY
final choices! Good Luck!
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