Borland C++ 3.1 vs Visual Basic 2.0

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From: Melinda L. Gierisch
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 17:17

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For the last 8 months my group has been developing a Windows
application using the BC++ 3.1 Object Windows Library.  This
program accesses Paradox tables using the Paradox Engine.  Someone in
the group suggested using Visual Basic for much of the user interface
because he believes it is more flexible and easier to use than OWL.
No one else in the group has any experience with Visual Basic.  My
questions are:

1)  What is the "ramp up time" or learning curve for creating windows,
dialogs, etc. with Visual Basic?  We needed about 3 months to get
fully comfortable with OWL.

2)  How easy / difficult would it be to combine Visual Basic windows
and dialogs with BC++ functions for database access (these have
already been written and are not OWL dependent)?

If anyone out there has experience programming in both Visual Basic
and C++ I would appreciate any help.

Thanks in advance,
Melinda Gierisch

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Subject: Borland C++ 3.1 vs Visual Basic 2.0
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