Can anyone tell me what the difference is between Visual Basic and Visual C++. what real-life applications would they be used in. Is one better than the other
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Can anyone tell me what the difference is between Visual Basic and Visual C++. what real-life applications would they be used in. Is one better than the other
Visual C++ uses C++, which is an internationally-standardised language (by ISO, and a number of country-specific standards bodies including ANSI).
C++ isn't limited to Windows, it runs on pretty much everything out there. However, you pay a price in complexity - you have to take into account a few things about the target you're compiling on but C++ has mostly made that simpler.
C++ == used for everything
VB == used for quite a lot
C++ is better than VB...just search anywhere (on this forum, on the internet) for reasons why.
The main ones are:
Mostly platform independent - there's a compiler available everywhere.
It's a lot faster (apparently 10 times in some cases).
If you know it you can get paid more for programming in it.
Everybody uses it - it's pretty much the standard general-purpose programming language.
check out
http://www.dummies.com/Technology/Pr...35-0_0009.html
for more info......
algorithms using arrays a lot will run 30 times faster (I tried!)
and as afor counting program, they will soar along in c++ and not in VB
a bastard to C++ is though, its all upper case and lower cvase, so what should be lower case, HAS to be lower case.
that may be the way in some VB apps, but i found that it isnt lot of the time!