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It depends on what you want to do. Requirements should define the tool to be used.
For simple small projects VB is ideal, but when it gets to bigger and more complex, Delphi is the one.
C is better though when no serious interface is needed and there is a lot of data proccessing to be done.
did you ever think using python. it's very useful and so easy to code. you can develop projects very fast because it's a very high level language and because it's open source there is so much developers and ready to use codes. you can use existing c++ libraries with it. and it's free!
w*w.python.org
I think Visual C++ is better than others,because of power of C language.You must start with VC++.Other languages is just trash!
Pascal isn't an engineering language.
Hi,
sure C++ is the language of engineer. no doubt about it. :twisted:
as far as compiler is concerned, u can choose it according to your requirements.
Oh, if you want an engineering language, use LISP. Jodrell Bank (the BIG radio telescope in the UK) runs on LISP, after all. Forget C - :roll:
But for a GUI language on Windows, LISP just sucks. Delphi is the best for general Windows GUI programming, write your real back-end technical stuff in C++, and control your radio telescopes with LISP.
As others have said, it depends on the application as well as other issues like code portability as well as the amount of time you would want to spend learning.
Borland's tools are easy to use and powerful. I certainly find them much easier than Microsoft's tools.
If your project requires hardware interfaces, C++ is the way to go - most if not all manufacturers will send example source code in C++. If it needs a lot of GUI work on windows, then Delphi is a good solution. When you choose Borland you can combine the two quite easily. Indeed the Gui part of Builder (the Visual Component Library or VCL) is actually written in Delphi.
If you want to port your application to Linux then Kylix can use most of the code you wrote in both Delphi and C++ (except the Win32 specific functions - obviously).
The learning curve is steeper and longer than VB for both C++ Builder and Delphi (and Kylix - the Linux version of the two combined).
But the rewards at the end will justify the time spent. C++ is an established and ANSI standardised, tried and tested professional language, available for just about any operating system you can name (Windows, Linux, UNIX, Mac etc) and you can be almost certain that there will be a C++ compiler for any future OS - you cannot go far wrong with it.
VB is a one maker(MS), one OS (Windows) language. If all you ever want to do is create a little application to run on Windows - then VB might be for you.
I think it all depends on the task and on the target platform.
eg.
* When you need a simple gui on a windows system and a frontend for a database you probably will use Visual Basic.
* When you need to write a normal application (with some complexity) you can choose whatever language you like and you know best (Visual C++, Delphi, Python, Java, ...) Every language has his good and bad things.
* When you write stuff close to the hardware you'll probably use C/C++
* When you write software that needs to be portable to other OSses you should probably use java (although the other langagues have a degree of portability too (depending on the amount of os specific things u use)
* When you write embedded software you will probably use C (with some assembler) and try to write as much ansi C as possible for portability issues (you don't wanna be too dependant from a uC vendor!!)
I think you should keep a sequence of languages like assembly, C, C++, VC++, Delphi, VB
More closeyou are to the hardware, more you go on to the assembly side of the sequence, and more you go close to the user, more you go on the VB side of the sequence.
After that you might have your portability issues(both H/W and OS), your knowledge of language and size of your language and the most important time you have got in your hands to complete the project
If you go with easy go with VB , if you want much powerful choose delphi , and if you want powerful and large support using Vc++.
Depend to your skill , if you a VB programmer just try using VB to solve all your problem not need to learn delphi to solve your problem in VB. Just take one and take all of your mind , algorithm and skill for your application
In the paste I have used Visual Basic. This is good for simple applications. Now I`m using Borland Builder. This have a friendly enviroment like Visual Basic. I think that .NET is very powerfull and simple but generated code is heavy, in few words .NET application is only for new machines with many memory and hard disk. This is not suitable for old machines with poor recurses (Like all Microsoft applications). Regards.
It doesn't depent of your application. Use delphi and win time. never use vb. but use vb.net and know delphi.net is released and is very good. i did all of i wanted until now with delphi , simple applications as wel as applications that uses hardware.
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