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Aaron Ni:
Ok, right now I'm in an "Intro to Programming in Visual Basic 6.0" class in my local community college and I've heard that C++ and Perl are everything that VB6 is and much much more.  What I'm asking is does anyone have suggestions to any programming languages that kick VB6's ass?  I've also heard that Perl is very easy to learn.

[ February 23, 2002: Message edited by: Aaron ]

badkarma:
Programming c/c++ under linux kicks VB6's ass bigtime, even if only for the fact that linux is one great big debugging toolkit  

Furthermore c/c++ programs excecute a lot faster when the basic program is interpreted, and a bit faster when it is compiled. Code is a lot more compact and VB programming teaches you some bad programming habits..

I have never used VB much, I learned progrgamming under pascal (turbo pascal 7.0 for dos   ), then learnt c, then java, then c++. Have been programming c++ under linux for about 7 months now professionaly and I could never imagine programming for windows again...

voidmain:
And VB is not portable.  You're stuck with Windows as long as you do VB, one of the reasons Microsoft has pushed it so hard from the beginning.  They know VB=monopoly.

Aaron Ni:
Thanks you guys, I'll check into the C++ programming class when this quarter is over... Sometimes I'm so pissed at Bill I almost drive up to Redmond just to kick his friggin ass!  Hehe, anyways thanks.

dbl221:
I program in VB, C, Perl, AWK, ksh, bash, and Object Pascal.

Basic perl is easy to learn if you know C, but perl  has a very wierd syntax that a lot of programmers don't like.  I like it but hey!

VB is just for windows and it is VERY popular in the "real world".

The closest thing to VB for Linux is Kylix, but it uses the object pascal language.

Perl is still my all time fav....they is so much code out there for perl it just blows my mind....there is a module for anything you can think of.......anything.

I would say you cant go wrong learning C or C++ or Perl.

Good Luck.

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