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Richard - compositely composed! JavaScript and Perl are great examples of tools that are called "scripting languages" only by virtue of them being interpreted. In fact, Howard can correct me if im wrong - but there is a compiler for Perl now. Cant tell the difference between .pl and .exe anymore (other then by size of the .exe itself).
Kent,
Yeah - nothing quite beats Visual Basic for getting a really slick application up and running real quick. VB looks after ALL of the low-level details for you.
C++ with MFC and/or ATL support - still requires a lot of background (imho). And yeah, .net seems to be (the beginning of) the great language convergence ... but to my mind, still a bit heavy handed in terms of its object oriented bent (for beginners anyways (imho)).
For windows application compilers and folks just learning - can't beat VB ...
-Shawn
[ 09. September 2002, 18:42: Message edited by: Shawn ]
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