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Subject: Re: Is Visual Basic good for Chess Programming?

Author: William Kerr

Date: 15:03:51 12/27/99

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On December 27, 1999 at 14:49:20, Pham Hong Nguyen wrote:

>I am told that Chess Program wrote by Visual Basic would significantly slower
>than that wrote by Visual C++. Is it true? Why?
>Thank you very much for answer!

If you bought Visual Basic Learning edition then its an interpreted language and
would be very slow compared to a compiled language such as C. However, if you
own Visual Basic Professional Edition then you have the option to compile your
programs and then they would be close in speed to compiled C.

Bill





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