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- From: hraiser@cloud9.net
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.basic.visual.misc,comp.lang.pascal.delphi.misc,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: "SHOULD I DUMP VISUAL BASIC?"
- Date: 2 Feb 1996 08:32:23 -0500
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- Chung Hong (chungh@Hawaii.Edu) wrote:
- : So what? VB will still be a messed up mutated language with severe limits
- : and incredibly frustrating to use, especially when compared with the other
- : development tools out there like Delphi. If you've used VB and Delphi both,
- : you'd realize that VB has much deeper problems than what including a new
- : VB-compiler will be able to resolve.
-
- No compiler can compensate for a weak, cumbersome, limited language like
- (Viusal) Basic. Delphi has an excellent environment, but nothing on heaven
- or Earth can make me go back to coding Pascal. Smart money is on Latte,
- Borland's upcoming Java based programming environment, based on the Delphi
- front end.
-