>I don't see whats so specail about VB. Why not Delphi, or C or an variety? Why not Java? How do you compare these tools to VB?

PMFJI. C/JAVA/VB seem to be the big three. Delphi seems to be floundering in the last 2 years. Not sure why seems like a good tool. Personally I would take up VC++ over VB but its so damn difficult. Perhaps C# will be the middle ground. MS market is something like (I paraphrase) "Powerful as C++, easy as VB".