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- From: stevez1@ibm.net (Steven R. Zuch)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.basic.visual.misc,comp.lang.pascal.delphi.misc,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: "SHOULD I DUMP VISUAL BASIC?"
- Date: Mon, 05 Feb 1996 03:22:41 GMT
- Organization: Cogent Management Inc.
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- woodhead@astro.uiuc.edu (Daniel Bullok) wrote:
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- >In <4etkm5$n3p@newshost.cyberramp.net>, gcopelan@cyberramp.net (George Copeland) writes:
- >Boy, I could almost hear your mind snap shut when someone criticized VB.
- >While VB is a very useful tool, it falls short of being a first class
- >language (IMNSHO). Also, the fact that it is interpreted IS a big
- >disadvantage in speed, and compiled languages don't HAVE to take up much
- >more memory than interpreted ones anyway.
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- ....
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- The impact of overall system performance using a compiled language
- versus a interpretative language depends on the nature of the
- application. If the application is database centric, the difference
- is not that large is the situations that we have encountered. The
- performance of the database engine and report generator is
- significantly more import. None of our custom applications are
- ever self-contained (regardless of the language used) due
- to the reliance on Windows for so many basic functions. However, if
- your application is only counting in a loop, Delphi will blow VB
- away. We don't get too many of those type of jobs, though :(.
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- Steven R. Zuch
- Cogent Management Inc.
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