VB was great in a way because I recall screaming in rage at 3am when I finally realised what Object Orientated programming was, and why VB was not OO. Never went back

I learned C++ most recently, and was quite suprised at how much like perl it was. Shame I still have to do some of my code in C :)

Where is all this going? You will probably learn more 'real' programming doing C++, and that knowledge will be transferrable to other languages (like perl!) but doing VB will get you familiar with the Microsoft developer environment, which is not a bad place to be (although it does chafe a little at times).

But I'm sure it will be easier to go from C++ to VB than vice versa.

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Jeremy
I didn't believe in evil until I dated it.