Re: Whitch is better?
On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Scott_Husen wrote:
> Sorry I agree... stupid question and sorry for anoying you all.
I don't think it was a stupid question at all. Even so, it's hard to answer,
because "which is best?" depends mostly on what you're trying to accomplish.
Just as an example, I write customized POS, order tracking, and billing
programs, and have, over the years, written these in BASIC, Pascal,
COBOL, DBase, VB, Delphi, and Euphoria (and others I won't mention)
VB is easy to use, but just about the time you add enough functionality to
so that your program is usable in the real-world, VB becomes huge and slow.
Distributing programs with all the VB files is a major hassle.
Delphi used to be better than VB, and even though it is faster,
it too has become huge, and the later versions crash far too
often for my taste.
Pascal compiles to small, easily distributed exe's, but it is pretty ancient
and therefore limited in what it can do.
Since my apps don't depend upon internet connectivity or other such things
that are missing from Euphoria, I've been using it for most new apps for over
a year, with zero problems. Euphoria binds to a small, easy to e-mail exe, and
it's very stable. I've had no reports of lost data whatsoever.
Regards,
Irv
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