Author: Severi Salminen
Date: 02:16:15 11/12/00
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>My son who is doing year 12 at high school needed help with a program he was >writing in visual basic.So I bought myself a book called "Idiots guide to visual >Basic".After a bit of reading and experimenting we managed to complete his >project satisfactorily.Since then I have written a couple of programs for myself >which were Hangman and Tictactoe,I found this very enjoyable and a lot of >fun.Now my thoughts turn to writing a chess program (I must be crazy). >My question is should I continue with visual basic or should I learn visual >c,any comments on the advantages and disadvantages of visual c over visual basic >would be appreciated. Well, first of all, there is no program language visual c, there are only c and c++ (which are different). Visual C++ (6.0) is a compiler/IDE product from MS. But to your question. Here is a list of benefits from my point of view (I have _not_ programmed with Visual Basic ever): -C has been around for years and you'll find tons of examples for C and C++ -The most of chess programs have been written in C, so you'll find chess program examples also mostly in C (Crafty, TCSP...) -C programs can be ported to almost any system, VB programs can not -C is fast, maybe faster than Visual Basic -C is C! Severi
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