Chen Xiao Fan wrote:

> The problem is that I am not willing to learn another language (object
> pascal) and to me they are in the same league of Visual C/C++ which I
> feel more difficult than plain C or Python or VB.

You may want to have a second look at it. It doesn't seem to me that the 
Object Pascal/Delphi dialects are more difficult to learn than Python. (I 
don't use them since I moved on from Turbo-Pascal

You didn't say whether you wanted GUI access or whether command line is 
good enough. Programming Windows GUI applications in C is definitely more 
complex than any of the other choices. The issue with this is not so much 
the language. This is something you usually can learn rather quickly, at 
least the basics that get you going, for any of the suggested languages. 
But some of the GUI development environments shield you quite well from the 
complexity that any GUI includes, whereas with others you have to get into 
the ugly innards of whatever GUI library you are using. The best example is 
the VB6 IDE: the language sucks, but you can write a reasonably nice GUI 
that does something trivial in 10 minutes, without even knowing the first 
thing about VB. That applies also to other similar IDE-based development 
systems. I've never worked with Delphi, but I know the ones who use it 
claim a similar ease. Using one of these, you don't have to worry about 
system APIs and how things work; you drag and drop a button to where you 
want it, set its properties, and write a function that does what you want 
to happen when it gets pressed. That's about as simple as it gets. In the 
time it takes you to learn how to achieve the same result with C in 
Windows, you have written your complete application in Delphi or any of the 
others with a decent IDE :)

Gerhard
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