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- From: Ken Fose <kenfose@netacc.net>
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.basic.visual.misc,comp.lang.pascal.delphi.misc,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: "SHOULD I DUMP VISUAL BASIC?"
- Date: Sun, 28 Jan 1996 13:21:44 -0500
- Organization: Fose Software
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- Bob Ross wrote:
- >
- >
- > I called M$ Tech support, only to have them tell me that my
- > suspicion was indeed correct, VB4 is actually SLOWER than VB3.
-
- I agree that vb4 is disappointing in many ways. See http://www.apexsc.com/vb/vb34bnch.html
- for some performance benchmarks.
-
- The project I'm on at work uses VB to populate excel reports and uses mainframe DB2 tables. VB4
- offers many performance improvements and bug fixes over vb3.
-
-
-
- > When I
- > asked the tech why they called it an UPgrade, he told me all about the
- > great OLE features that VB4 now contained. When I told him that I wasn't
- > using any of the "great" OLE features, he told me that I needed to
- > include the OLE .DLLs anyway, because VB4 itself needs them to run.
-
- Instead of every VB4 app having to carry this baggage around, I think MS should have made
- available an "operating system update" that is a prerequisite to installing vb4/vba apps. It is
- dumb to have every setup program, and every vb4 app sitting on a server somewhere containing the
- same DLLs.
-
-
- > I am so pissed that M$ did what they did with VB4. I have now
- > switched wholeheartedly over to Delphi and am loving life.
-
- I bought Delphi too. Even though I know Pascal, I thought it'd take too much time getting up to
- speed.
-
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