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>I was wonding what the 'pros and cons' are with Microsoft Quick BASIC and
>C++ (Borland). I need to buy a language I can use to create a flexible
>string based data base (as well as for general programming). I can only buy
>one and would like to know what would best suit my needs.

That's a pretty big question.  I have built a specialized engineering
database in QuickBASIC 4.0b (because 4.5 has some bugs in it that I didn't
want to live with) so I know you can do it.  QuickBASIC is a fast, flexible
development environment - pretty much anything you can think of has been
added in as a language extention: do loops, while statements, case statements,
called subroutines.  C++ would be more impressive on a hacker level, and
if you need object orientation, that's the way to go... and Borland Turbo C++
is good.  Both have friendly developer interface... it really comes down to
your personal preference.  I chose QuickBASIC last time because we see the
development time and prototyping as faster, and we have code already written
that we want to re-use.

Tell me what you come up with.