Looking for suggestions

From: J. A. Ek (public.1.NOSPAM_at_worldnet.att.net)
Date: 12/30/03 

Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 04:51:15 GMT

It's been 20 years since I've take a programming course. At that time it
was in a university environment and we didn't really need to be concerned
about the operating system. Courses taken were along the lines of Assembler
Language for the Motorola 8086 chip, FORTRAN, Pascal, and naturally a little
Basic programming on the Commodore 64.

For years I've been curious about a lottery program idea. I know there are
probably thousand of lottery programs out there. But I have a specific idea
I would like to try.

I have not had any successful experience with writing C++ programs. I
purchase the C++ package available by Borland, but either I was to busy or
just wasn't properly motivated at the time to learn it.

But I am back to being haunted by this Lottery idea again. I have no desire
to ever write a program on the machine level again. But I want something
that will run fast. I'm locked on running in the DOS environment. But back
to the memories of C++ by Borland wasn't exactly easy to use.

At this point I should state that I have NO desire to be a Guru of C++. I
just basically want to program, tune up, and let the thing run.

Now the question after the long winded preliminaries.

A few years back I was talking to a high school programming teacher who
raved about the visual languages. In specific he was talking about Visual
Basic. But I think I need to get a little bit deeper then that. So I am
thinking about Visual C++.

I assume the development of an unsophisticated program in C++ using Visual
C++ is done in a Windows environment. But how easy is it to take the
finished code which was developed in a Windows environment and migrate it to
a DOS environment?

TIA,
Jim

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