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- From: dbowman@post.smu.edu (Damon Bowman)
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- Subject: Re: Visual Basic vs. Visual C++
- Date: 4 Jan 1996 08:26:45 -0600
- Organization: Southern Methodist University
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- >In <4bu9ut$6j7@news-srv1.fmr.com> David Button <David.Button@fmr.com> writes:
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- >You probably want to look at Delphi too, since it seems to have
- >gone quite a long way towards hiding the horrors of the windows
- >API and yet it has solved the two-tier problems of VB - having
- >to write components in some language other than your glue language.
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- VB 4.0 has the ability to create its own components using VB, without
- having to use another language. I don't know what drawbacks or
- limitations, if any, this method has.
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- While I have not used Delphi, I know that it of course offers the
- additional benefit of a compiled executable, rather than VB's
- interpreted program.
- Damon Bowman
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