Craig,
Your words best expressed what I wished to say. Despite the speed of execution VC gives, developing GUI in VC++ etc is quite tedious and sometimes complex. Which is why Microsoft came up with VB and its drag-and-drop interface for UI design I suppose ;-))

However, as I said, the reason VB is so slow is that it does everything over COM, which actually goes through a lot of function calls to get a pointer to the actual function to be called, and involves numerous Windows Registry search overheads.

This .NET and C# phenomenon (VB, C and all in one language/ IDE ) is probably a similar scenario... there will be many overheads involved, although development will be extremely easy. Unless Microsoft provides an extremely good optimizing compiler, or some faciliy for the programmer to optimize his code, it will be slower than ever. It can only be used for E-business applications, where cumbersome compiler output can be compensated with faser and more expensive hardware :-))

I've heard a lot about Delphi in similar discussions on other forums too... Hmmm, I think I should take a look at Delphi. I haven't the faintest clue what it's all about or its applications.

kundi