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opa6x57 · Apr 10th, 2008, 9:51 PM

I think the answer is: It depends on what you're trying to do.

If you're writing a visual application that must deal with millions of transactions a day - using TCP/IP packets and with heavy doses of SQL database interaction - then you should probably write that in something as tight as you can get. Some variation of C most likely.

If you're writing an application where most of the time the application is idle - waiting for user input - then the focus should be on the language that will give the user the best computing experience. And, here it may become a matter of which is more valuable to you - your time writing the program - or the milliseconds of extra time that the program MAY require because you wrote it in VB .NET versus MFC for example.

But, hey, that's just one man's opinion. I'm sure you'll get others.

Apr 10th, 2008, 9:51 PM	#2
opa6x57 Hmmmm ... Is there more?? Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Post Falls, ID Posts: 15 Rep Power: 0	Re: Which visual Programming language I think the answer is: It depends on what you're trying to do. If you're writing a visual application that must deal with millions of transactions a day - using TCP/IP packets and with heavy doses of SQL database interaction - then you should probably write that in something as tight as you can get. Some variation of C most likely. If you're writing an application where most of the time the application is idle - waiting for user input - then the focus should be on the language that will give the user the best computing experience. And, here it may become a matter of which is more valuable to you - your time writing the program - or the milliseconds of extra time that the program MAY require because you wrote it in VB .NET versus MFC for example. But, hey, that's just one man's opinion. I'm sure you'll get others. __________________ Ken - New to PFO ... but been dabbling in various versions of BASIC since highschool - circa 1973. "Shouldn't the 'Air and Space' museum be empty?" - Dennis Miller