Jake Anderson wrote:

>BAH!! real programmers use VB because they like the challenge (or they are
>totally manically insane.... either way) of writing multi threaded apps that
>bit bash hardware in lieu of device drivers MUHAHAHAH!!!!
>VB is dead. Long live VB!
>
>to come to a more sensical conclusion
>writing a simple ap in VB is pretty easy and probably far faster than it
>would be to write in C or a variant thereof. if you were writing an
>application that had to mess with networks and run as a service part of the
>OS then a flavour of C would be your best bet (though I'd still want to do
>it in VB, but then I am a "real programmer" or was I insane? I can never
>remember)
>a quick search for "visual basic serial" turned up a few examples
>and the mscomm control ("Microsoft comm control") looks pretty easy to use,
>at least for simple stuff
>
I wonder if you're a " real programmer", AFAIK  "Serial RS232 is
legacy"   ;-)
Stef Mientki

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