Re: Opinions on a good choice for application re-write

Daniel T. wrote:
In article <1143566523.269838.65810@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
pratclif@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

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.
:
:
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.

There is such a thing as VB.NET now, which as far as I can tell, is
Visual Basic restructured to be object oriented and made to target
the .NET environment. That means it's essentially just as efficient
as C# would be for the same tasks. (As far as I can tell, all
languages that target .NET are essentially equivalent languages with
slightly different syntaxes. But I'm not an expert, nor is it a
personal ambition of mine to become one.)

- Logan
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