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- Subject: Re: "SHOULD I DUMP VISUAL BASIC?"
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- Date: 18 Feb 1996 09:21:07 -0500
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- Jens Balchen Jr. (balchen@sn.no) wrote:
- : >Basic is useless. Even if you unload the processing onto DLLs, the
- : >interface crawls on a VB application compared to one coded in C/C++.
- :
- : since both rely on the API, I can't imagine why.
-
- Neither can I. Why don't you experiment? Create a form with 10 or so
- controls on it in Visual Basic and run it. Watch the form thrash around
- while drawing the controls. Now code up the same interface in C or C++ and
- run it. Much snappier, eh?
-
- : yeah? I can make a button on a form ten times as fast as you can (this
- : includes the form, of course). it took me 2.9 seconds to have a one-form,
- : one-button app up and running, from I started moving the mouse 'til the app
- : had stopped loading. you will have to do it in less than 30 seconds to
- : prove me wrong. :)
-
- Then that settles it! I will use Visual Basic for my backlog of one
- button functionless forms! My clients will be overjoyed.
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