Adelphi??

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?

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.

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?

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).