Basic vs C++

[John Reynolds]

I've been told there are a great many more VB programmers than VC++. But if that's true, why would there be almost 6 times as many posts on the VC++ discussion board as there are on the VB board? Just wondering . . . Thanks for any input!

John

[Clearcode]

Perhaps it is six times as difficult to program in VC++ as it is in Visual Basic?

(It's most likely to do with this site's user base - sites like planet source code seem to have many more VB posts than VC)

HTH,
Duncan

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[Ghost308]

Here's my guess..

There are many pocedures in VB that only require a few clicks of the mouse and a couple lines of code, whereas in C++ you might code 100 lines. Which is gonna be more error-prone- 100 lines, or 4 mouse clicks?

Another thing is that most colleges use c++ to teach concepts of programming. It is being used as the introductory language for many programmers to learn on.

Also, VB is limited to Windows systems. C++ is involved in coding for Windows as well as Unix and its evil stepchild Linux :) Its just a broader scoped language.

Jeff