OT: Best programming suite recommendations.

From: Bob Lafleur <bob_lafleur_at_technologist.com>
Date: Fri Nov 1 20:38:00 2002

Jeffrey Sharp writes:

The only Windows development I've done has been with Visual Basic, and
that has either been with VB6 or directly inside a MS Office app. VB is
great for throwing together quick-and-dirty apps, but attempting to work
outside that core capability profile generates only frustration.
Example: multithreading. You can do it (sort of) in VB6, but it requires
things like invisible windows with timer controls and other sorts of
kludges.

Visual Basic has been TOTALLY revamped in Visual Studio.NET. Things that
were very hard or just about impossible to do before (such as your
example of multithreading, or command-line apps) are very easy and fully
supported now. Sorry, I don't want to sound like a Microsoft commerical,
but Visual Basic has been a "toy" language for so long that many people
are slow or unwilling to give the new version a serious look. It's
pretty easy to visualize the new Visual Basic.NET as C++ with "BASIC"
syntax rather than C syntax.

   - Bob
Received on Fri Nov 01 2002 - 20:38:00 GMT