Martin


> As I see it, much of your app is oriented to Office Automation and is not
much database intensive. It looks as a >desktop application also, not very
complicated with multiuser ccontrols.
>
> That seems an ideal case for VB, indeed. Mainly, you can use LOTS of
controls to give it the type of interface you >want, and to control of
Office tools is obviuosly the best choice (just look at the documentation,
the samples, the >magazines, etc).

> Personally, I find VB very tedious and I don't like the language (even
having used Basic from CP/M to Visual Studio).
>
> I didn't do much with Delphi but I really liked what I saw. It is an
elegant Pascal, and is very Object Oriented. Alas! I >don't think I'd bet
any of my time on it. If we suffer lack of visibility on VFP, I'm afraid
Delphi is worst.

Thanks for the info - I;m beginning to think you're right.
My problem is that I instinctively don't feel that VB is a real
'programmer's' language - not like C or VFP (at least). My husband think's
I'm still hankering after Z80 and 6502 assembler (but that's another story
...)

>
> I know there is a lot of people using it, but I really think they are
shrinking anyway. Borland (or Inprise, or Borland >again) is having troubles
since many years ago, and you can easily get stucked.

Mind you - aren't similar things said about VFP (and what will happen to MS
when they finally get split up ?

> The next VB is a lot better, anyway, and I believe in many cases would be
easier to learn for a VFP programer that a >VB6 one. so if you know VFP and
VB today, you will have a great tool at hand when VB.Net arrives.
>
> A last ranting about Delphi. Many people that worked with it and saw C#
are please and very excited because it's >quite simmilar and powerful and I
think it can be a viable alternative. Indeed this is not strange, as C#
designer is the >same who did Turbo Pascal and Delphi.
>
> This is just a bunch of thoughts and ideas, more than any advice. I think
your best chance is to think about all the >feedback and take a look at both
tools.

Many thanks for these ideas/thoughts - much appreciated.
I'll take a look at some of the sites on C# - and also try and get a beta
verstion of VB.Net. (I should be getting VFP.Net through the UK User Group -
but I'm not sure about VB).

Regards

Anna