Steve wrote: >When you say real language...what do you mean. Are you knocking VC++ or C++ >in general or VBasic? I am a physicist so we(should say I'm) are not all >that savvy on programming. Given data we would like to obtain I have to find >a real world way of obtaining it so I am very open to practical ways of >obtaining it.Researchers here latch on to the latest buzz and try to make it >work like VC++ ( except for the rebels using Fortran). > Steve, most of this thread, plus the other on VB, is just plain "flaming". Serious people shouldn't take it too seriously [and I mean this seriously].