In a message dated Friday April 26 1996, Peter Lavender of 3:635/309 wrote:

 PL> I'm very interested.. I saw Vis. Basic and Delphi in the shop the other
 PL> day and I'm not sure which one to go for..

 PL> Is delphi to pascal what visual basic is to basic?

Sort of, except Delphi produces EXE files directly, whereas Visual Basic
requires a run-time library to work and is about 10 times slower.


     -Peter
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