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davypipes:
thanks again!!! and oohhhh....HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! so i kinda wanted to ask you some advice...well on programming languaghes!!  since i see uve done alot..some of them ive never had off :-\(z80..isnt that some kind of robot? ;D) Is delphi better than vb?
a friend of mine was telling me that u can make an appl with delphi which will be smaller than the same one done on vb!!! is this true :-\

Dack:
Size isn't always that important :)

You can get better speed results using a massive, pre-computed look up table in some application than a much smaller bit of code that computes the values dynamically. It's very much a 'horses for courses' kind of argument.

My view?

Visual basic easy to learn and develop applications quickly  - latest .NET version much better than older versions. However you are limited to Microsoft's language - though it does propagate to other MS products e.g. Excel.

Delphi is probably best thought of as a visual version of Pascal - free download from http://www.borland.com/products/downloads/download_delphi.html. Better for 'real' work and tends to be faster. You might want to have a search for DeDe too ;) Also look at Kylix.

C/C++ - current language of choice as I've developed lots of useful classes over the years which make development easier for me. Can be incredible infuruating though - Microsoft development environment not too bad. Because of the wealth of people programming in it there are usually routines available to perform any task you need (though most require a bit of tweaking).

Good place to look at for examples is over at www.codeguru.com

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