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Visual basic makes creating windows applications a doddle, point and click for all the forms and menu's you need. Use Basic code to glue it all together and hey presto, a new application. Great if you have small a application to put together fast. It'll never be as powerful or fast as C++, but it does have its place. The only real drawback with this is that as the name suggests it's based on basic. After getting used to C++ and Perl I often find that going to VB means massive restrictions of programming techniques, making everything very long winded. They should have a version where you can drag and drop the graphics but with C++ code to glue it together.

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