difference between visual basic and visual C++

[steve_rm]

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

[parksie]

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.

[[praetorian]]

check out

http://www.dummies.com/Technology/Pr...35-0_0009.html

for more info......

[CornedBee]

algorithms using arrays a lot will run 30 times faster (I tried!)

[JafferAB]

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!