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  1. Jun 12th, 2003, 08:57 AM #1
    marex
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    Lightbulb Your opinion please

    I'm considering learning a new programming language.

    The choises are : VB.NET or Visual C++.

    At the moment no need for client/server applications.

    It seems that more C++ programmers are wanted than VB programmers.

    Just wonder if C++ is much faster than VB at execution level.

    Hope to get a lot of information here.
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  2. Jun 12th, 2003, 10:42 AM #2
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    Visual C++ isn't a language.

    C++ is a language, and it runs faster than vb.net
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    Sorry, my mistake.

    Can i start with c++ immediatly or should i first learn C?
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  4. Jun 12th, 2003, 11:41 AM #4
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    Both have excellent job opportunities. Im a littled biased towards C/C++ though. Learn C++ in borland or any other IDE. Dont learn Visual C++, it would spoil you (As I like to say). Or just make sure you don't buy a book or take a course that teaches you exclusively purely in Visual. If you learn in Visual, you'd be forced to use MFC and other things giving away portability. Learning C/C++ in another environment would allow you to easily pick up Visual C++ or C# at a later time.
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