heheheheh..... powerbasic forum cracks me up

[aetherfox]

Firstly, those dll's are something you could never avoid. While I am not too knowledgeable in raw win32 programming, even a c program would have to include those dlls that antoni showed, right?

Secondly, the idea behind VB is it's SIMPLICITY. Someone with a little English and a little BASIC knowledge can create win32 programs easily without messing about with message loops and handles. But, for the advanced user, that stuff is right there. That's the beauty of VB.

I think the absolute power and functionality that VB demonstrates is worth 25kb for a basic win/button program. I don't think many languages could ouput a smaller file.

And the 3 threads of VB is a good way for cheap/poor people to get a reach on professional software.

And the VB runtime DLL with people have always bitched about has been shipped with every single computer that I've ever used in my life after 1999 (thats about 250 since I've used pretty much every single school computer). Thats a stupid excuse to knock VB, and to be honest Antoni, I thought you would be able to see past that.