What are you planning to develop??

I've made a living since 1980 on writing BASIC code - from mainframes all the way through VB6 and now .Net.

BASIC code is easy to produce - quick - and easy to modify and enhance.

It's got great commercial value to my business.

Back in our mainframe days we would occasionally develop a function or routine in an assembler language to get a real speed hit - but PC's are so incredibly fast compared to the CPU's of 30 years ago that ease-of-maintenance/enhancement drive our business decisions a whole lot more then raw routine speed.