Re: What lang(s) to learn?

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From: Dmitri Alperovitch
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 00:00

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>shops that don't use PB, but VB4 instead.  Powerbuilder can do whatever
>Visual Basic can do, only better and faster.  

Faster???  I'm not even going to get into the discussion which language is 
"better", but I certainly disagree that Powerbuilder is faster.  I don't know 
about Powerbuilder 5.0, but I've tried 4.0 and it was at least 5 times 
SLOWER than VB4.

Dmitri
dmitri@cdc.net

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From: dmitri@cdc.net (Dmitri Alperovitch)
Subject: Re: What lang(s) to learn?
Date: 1997/03/19
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