>Not yet to the fullest. That's why Delphi is faster than VB. One survey stated that out of 34 products with compiler that were reviewed (speed, ease of use, rich features), Delphi ranks no. 1 while VB ranks no. 32; Borland C no. 3, VC++ No. 8. Good thing, VB is an MS product that it has its advantages because of VBA, VBSCRIPT, CE, etc. With that said, it is still the no. 1 devt tool as far as user count is concern.

ROFL! VB is emitting C code and then compiling that to native code using VC++ with some of the VC++ optimization engine enabled. I doubt that the Delphi code, which emits Object Pascal and then uses the Object Pascal to compile to native code is any better than VC++, but who know. Several million C programmers might be completely wrong...

You might want to check reality before quoting unnamed "experts" at us, since there are people here who actually have worked with both platforms.