At 10:05 PM 10/30/2003 -0600, you wrote: >My dislike of VB springs from having used it just a little. It was easier >for me to learn Win95 API and C++ than it was for me to learn VB. There's >just something about the shine on literature, not having access to data, >and the intelectual ugliness of VB that gets to me. I don't know what it >is, it just makes me ill. Sun has to have done better.
I would say that VB (the language and the environment) is one of the best tools for quickly developing an application out there. If nothing else VB is great for creating a prototype. For final product releases VB can be an issue though. I don't think that there is anything necessarily wrong with VB except that applications written in it tend to be slower than compiled applications. At times this can be very noticeable. I had a case where a pretty big application that was written in VC had its UI rewritten in VB. We were running the application for a company with many users on Win2k TS and the slowdown became a major issue after an upgrade. --- Dustin Puryear http://www.puryear-it.com
