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From: mjoseph@halcyon.halcyon.com (Michael Joseph Brennan)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development,comp.lang.basic.visual.misc,comp.lang.basic.visual,comp.databases.sybase
Subject: Re: Visual Basic vs. PowerBuilder
Date: 29 Nov 1994 15:01:47 GMT
Organization: NWNEXUS, Inc. - Making Internet Easy
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In article <3bea1t$3pm@alterdial.UU.NET>,  <ncharney@mutualfunds.com> wrote:
>
>In article <davebo.18.0010EDAE@mcs.com>, <davebo@mcs.com> writes:
>lterdial.uu.net comp.os.386bsd.development:2954 comp.lang.basic.visual:31060 
>comp.lang.basic.visual.misc:991 comp.databases.sybase:13308
>> 
>> Has anyone done a comparison of these 2 tools?  We are running Sybase System 
>> 10 on Unix on an HP9000 series 800 server.  We plan to do Windows client 
>> development using one of these 2 packages.  Any information/results would be 
>> appreciated....Of course, any general comments would be great, too!  Thanks 
>in 
>> advance.
>we've been using vb as a front end for the past two years and have been
>quite happy w/ the results.  We coded using both PB and VB for head to head 
>comparisons and our preference was VB.  One major consideration was look and 
>feel -VB clearly had a much more standard interface.  

I used VB, switched to PB for a while and quickly moved back to VB. Although
I loved the PowerBuilder (Desktop) Environment, I just ran into so many bugs
and problems that it really slowed me down.  I have heard they have fixed 
many of the bugs I ran into.  The next version of VB will have many of 
the programming features I want (ie real objects). 

Borland Delphi sounds better on paper than both VB and PB, althought I 
would like to get a good look at it before recommending it.
mjoseph@halcyon.com