Power Builder vs VB6

[billwagnon]

Has anyone out there worked with Powerbuilder and VB? How do the two compare? What is the learning curve?

The descriptions I have read of PB are that it is a 4th generation language because of it's graphic interface, but it sounds a lot like VB.

[Nathan]

I have about 6 months experience in each through school and they are fairly similar. When it comes down to it I actually liked powerbuilder more, but its only useful if you are working with database applications. If you are it is definitely worth looking into in more detail. If you know vb then the coding parts of powerbuilder won't be hard for you.

[Nitro]

Hello Bill!

I have written two identical applications - one in VB and the other in Power Builder.

This is my analysis.

In terms of database manipulation, Powerbuilder beats Visual Basic by far. It wasn't until lately, VB6 enhanced and add some new feature to make database manipulation much easier.

In term of CONTROLS and GRAPHICS, VB is so much more simple and fast. I wrote another simple application with scroll action. Both programs does exactly the same thing like identical twins. However, Powerbuilder took 23 lines of code more than VB5.