Adelphi??

[Guv]

I have been thinking about learning Visual C++ because Visual Basic does not seem to be good for developing applications to be marketed. I recently heard references to a language called something like Adelphi.

Am I wrong in believing that VB is not good for creating saleable applications? BTW: Why not?

C or C++ seem to be the language of choice for people attempting to sell software. To me, it seems like a tuff language to learn. At least compared to VB, it seems tuff. I hacked VB without any documentation other than the help facility. I could not get off the ground hacking Visual C++, so I bought a tutorial, which helps a lot, but it is still not easy.

BTW: I am a retired mainframe programmer who had no trouble with various assembly languages, Algol, Pl/1, Fortran, COBOL, et cetera. Is C tuff, or do I have some mental block about it?

What about Adelphi? Is it as easy as VB, as difficult as C++, or some place in between? Is it a good language for developing sellable applications?

[CiberTHuG]

Ah, coming from your mainframe/procedural background, C++ is going to be something completely different. C won't be too terribly lot a stretch, but I wouldn't mess with C, go straight to C++.

The big difference is Object Oriented. And this is why VB is not a good language for commercial use, it isn't OO.

Aside from that, VB takes more memory than it really needs, and you can not port a VB application from one platform to another. I also don't think it does multithreading very well (if at all), but I haven't really tried.

[sail3005]

Guv with your background you should have no trouble with C++. don't get pressured into learning C and then C++, just go straight to C++. there is no need to learn C first. How much have you learned so far?

[ccoder]

Could you possibly be referring to Delphi? If so, it is an OO version of Pascal.

You will find that Pascal is very similar to PL/I (I have written a lot of both on mainframes and on pcs). Also, the Delphi user interface is very similar to that of VB. I have used Delphi ever since Borland released V1.0 and prefer it to VB. Delphi (aka Kylix) has been ported to Unix/linux.

Borland's C++ Builder has the same user interface as Delphi and they both use the same VCL (visual component library).