QUOTE(jibnet @ Jun 5 2006, 05:02 AM)

Just read about Java and VB.. i am thinking of learnig one of them.. Which one do you all recommend??
Just my opinion, if you're going to code for a network/company/clients that has Microsoft all over, with no doubt VB.
if you're going to program for an internet audience with many different Operating Systems like Linux, Mac & Windows you will
be safer with Java. You can't program in VB fo Mac or Linux anyway.
A few facts:
if you learn VB you can interact with Windows Script Host (like shells on linux) MS-SQL scripts (to create automated task inside SQL server) , Office Suite and IIS (the apache for windows). all of the previous used the same code, so you can cover a lot more territory and also most of the connections and libaries are built-in VB or shared as components. this is usefull when you interact with mortal users and Office Suite
If you learn Java you can go wider but more complex programming and connections, I'm not very good with Java but every time I tried to used it (maybe becuase I interact more with windows applications) I've found that Java is more complex and longer.
It really depends on what you need to do. Java was the Panacea years ago for interaction between plataforms and still is and now is OpenSource maybe somebody can do something to speed up the runtime process.
Hope this help!!
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