VB: Easy to learn
VC++: Fairly easy to learn (easy if you already know the language), more powerful than VB
They both have the visual advantage, allowing you to drag and drop controls, resize the form, and all things visual, well, visually - letting the program figure out all that code for you.
Summary: Get VC++ if you can, at least in my opinion.
-Eon
One last thing: forget the MFC in VC++ for making games. It's way too slow.
This is of course a personnal advice and other people could tell you something totally different.
Hope this helps (and please forgive my poor english).
Certainly, it is easy to learn and a very rapid development platform for simple graphical interfaces. The downside to this, however, is that it becomes very difficult to do anything outside of the given scope of the language.
Trying to implement a binary tree to find an optimal huffman encoding of a short string required representing the tree as a string in prefix notation. You can imagine the speed loss traversing this tree (The strings involved were short, and disk operations meant that the delay was transparent, but this isn't always the case).
To cut a long story short, I would recommend Visual C++, mostly because of its power, reliability and extendibility.
White Fire
as far as visual design there about the same but VB is slightly better(in my opinion).
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