Re: Opinions on a good choice for application re-write
- From: "Daniel T." <postmaster@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 21:48:27 GMT
In article <1143566523.269838.65810@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
pratclif@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Hello All,
I'd love to hear some informed opinions about chosing a programming
language. I'm a DBA, not a programmer (my programming experience is C
and C++ in the classroom) but my company has a VB6 application which
front-ends a SQL Server 2000 db and they want to rewrite this as a
browser-based application.
The db is not large but is fairly complex. The application is in-house
only with less than 500 users but is an essential app.
What are the thoughts on which language/concept (C++? .net? C#? Java?)
would be a good choice and why? While I am (or was at one time)
familiar with C, C++ & assembly, I am ignorant of most of these newer
options - so be *basic* with your answers.
A friend works at a company that did something like the above in VB.
They are having real problems competing with other companies who's
products run much faster... Other than that, I know nothing.
His boss told me, if they had it to do over again, they would write it
in Python and use C++ in places where speed is an issue.
It's funny when you think about it. It used to be that you wrote in C
then used asm to accelerate parts of the program that needed it. Now you
can write in any of several higher level languages and use C++ for the
speed boost...
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