>Finally, if VB is that easy to use, could you code an app today in VB? My contention is that learning syntax is one thing. Being able to architect and write an app is quite another.

Absolutely.

>Sorry Bob, while you may *feel* your position is solid, it really has no basis in fact. If you have ever written anything in VB, you *may* have a basis to comment. If you have not, then it is just pure speculation.

I was basing my comments on what a felllow developer, someone I've worked with for ten years, and who knows Delphi well told me about an app he is doing in VB - that Delphi is a vastly more powerful language.

>I suggest you check out the VB enviroment be discounting it out of hand...

By chance, do you also develop in VB? :->