Which Programming language is better and why? Vb 6 or Java?

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Request for Question Clarification by politicalguru-ga on 05 Nov 2003 02:43 PST

better for what aims?

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Clarification of Question by skkskk-ga on 05 Nov 2003 03:51 PST

better for designing software - Software where an internet control is
created and the software goes to a web site and brings back the
speciified information.

Is this program running on Windows only? If there is essentially not
chance that it will be run on any other platform, VB6 would run alot
faster than Java,. However Java is generally much more
portable(meaning it can run on a variety of hardware and operating
systems).

I provided a comment for what appears to be a duplicate post of this
question.  I've included it below.  To provide comments to your
clarification, you can accomplish this in either VB or Java.  It would
probably be easier/faster to implement in VB due to the simpler
language and VB's ability to use existing Windows components (ActiveX
controls and the like).

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VB is a much simpler language which makes it good for rapid
application development or application prototyping prior to
development in a more complicated language such as C/C++.  VB is also
good to know because you can use it to extend other Microsoft
applications, notably Microsoft Office.  It will also help in learning
how to develop ASP applications because ASP syntax is pretty much the
same as VB.  Taking advantage of Windows components (ActiveX controls
and the like) is much easier.
 
On the other hand, Java is a more capable language.  The complexity of
the language makes it a bit harder to learn and application
development can take longer, but you have much more control over your
softare.  Java also implements a lot of modern programming concepts
that are good to know.  And Java applications aren't platform
dependant.
 
Hope that helps!