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   Thanks for all your prompt responses :)   
      
   Auric, I might check out some of the IDE's you listed.   
      
   To put it in perspective, I've been writing applications in QBASIC for 15   
   years and they are extremely fast. It's time to come out of the dark ages as   
   QBASIC is limiting, slow to develop in and does not have windows GUI   
   capability.   
      
   VB Express 2008 will do the job just fine but perhaps there is something a   
   little more lightweight for my style of apps.   
      
   It doesn't have to be OOP either, I'm quite happy to stick with arrays,   
   custom data types & procedures.   
      
   I thought perhaps VB6 would be the answer   
      
   Regards,   
   Moiv   
      
      
      
   "Auric__"  wrote in message   
   news:Xns9C26534678A48auricauricauricauric@69.16.185.250...   
   > On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 08:30:26 GMT, Dee Earley wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 10/06/2009 06:48, Moiv wrote:   
   >>> Is Visual Basic 6 still widely in use or is it dead in the water?   
   >>>   
   >>> I have downloaded Visual Basic 2008 Express. Applications built with   
   >>> this require the latest .net framework to be installed. I would much   
   >>> prefer to build lightweight&  fast applications that do not require   
   >>> users to download the latest .net framework. The .net applications also   
   >>> seem to run a lot slower due to the framework overhead. I assume VB6   
   >>> does not have this .net requirement?   
   >>   
   >> VB6 is still very widely in use.   
   >> If you are learning, don't even bother with vb6.   
   >> There is nothing wrong with .NET and is very prevalent.   
   >   
   > As much as I would like it to be otherwise, I *sort of* agree with this.   
   > MS   
   > might not support the VB runtime files beyond Windows 7, whereas .Net will   
   > *probably* be supported for much longer -- but VB.Net is not really BASIC.   
   >   
   > If I was going to recommend a BASIC to start with, I'd have to say   
   > something   
   > besides VB entirely. FreeBASIC is pretty good, although still technically   
   > a   
   > work in progress. PowerBASIC is my preferred flavor, but it's not free (in   
   > any sense of the word) and GUI programming is not *nearly* as easy as VB.   
   > REALbasic has a powerful GUI designer, but the language takes some getting   
   > used to (although it has the advantage of being able to write a single   
   > program that works under MacOS, x86 Linux, and Windows, without changes)   
   > and   
   > it's... expensive.   
   >   
   > --   
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