hello, i have no experience in Windows programming, but currently in holiday. so i decided to learn a language for programming in Windows. well, i am thinking of studying Dephi, since i can code in pascal. however, for what i have seen in this forum so far, most of the question asked (for Windows programming) are about Visual Basic. So my question are: 1) what is the strength of Dephi and VB? In which areas are they most differentiable? (eg. prolog for artificial intelligent) 2) Which one can produce faster code ? 3) Turbo Assembler lost the market to Microsoft Assembler some years ago. Will this happen again? - Dephi losses the market to Visual Basic? 4) how is the job market for Dephi programmers in comparsion to VB programmers? 5) are there any "good" links that describe the insight of the Dephi language? (such as the weakness and strength of its implementation.) thanks very much. wtk =)

Being that I do not write code in Delphi, I can only answer one of your questions in its entirey: "4) how is the job market for Dephi programmers in comparsion to VB programmers?" In my recent experience with the job market there are mostly requests for Visual Basic programmers compared to Delphi programmers. Delphi requests do exist, but are few and far between. You can try google for links regarding the pros and cons of implementing Delphi. I would like to point out that run-time file dependency poses a problem for VB6. For instance, if you create a VB6 application and make the executable, then distribute it... you may need to also include the necessary dynamic link libraries to ensure your program's functionality. IR

Learn VB. Or maybe ASP. I'm a pascal programmer by profession, and these two languages are where things are going. Delphi will be a snap to you if you already know Pascal....especially Turbo Pascal 5.5 or higher.

thanks a lot. i am going to learn the basic of Delphi these 2 weeks and write a program to practice. and then i'll learn VB. I think in this way i'll know 2 Windows programming languages. =) wtk

Learn C and the Windows API. That's the real programming for Windows. That is where things happen. Windows is written in C. Delphi, VB or whatever else are just wrappers of the Windows API. The Windows API is simple once you understand the concepts behind it, then you will understand the concepts of any GUI OS, so it's worth to learn the API