>>4
Actually VB6 has an easy to use FFI feature, so you don't have to reimplement C stuff, just add the dll to your project and write a one line FFI declaration.
>>1
Probably do what >>2 said. Simple syntax, simple library, cross-platform, etc.
If you desperately need to throw together something graphical quickly, you can use Visual Basic, but it will pretty much fuck you over if you intend to learn a real programming language later on.
>>1
Be a real man and send electrical impulses to the individual cells of your video RAM corresponding to what you want to see output on the screen. That's what a real programmer would do.
>>25
You find using XML easy? You're a better man than I.
"The Essence of XML" by Siméon and Wadler is good.
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Anonymous2007-04-17 6:00 ID:9A4WszLq
XML is easy only for managers and people who don't have a clue about XML.
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Anonymous2007-04-17 11:18 ID:XQziZ4Nh
XML is easy only for managers and other people who don't have a clue about XML.
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Anonymous2007-04-17 14:00 ID:j/K/J08o
Et tu XML? The fall of the relational empire Philip Wadler. VLDB, Rome, September 2001 (keynote).
Three decades past, the relational empire conquered the hierarchical hegemony. Today, an upstart challenges the relational empire's dominance, threatening the return of hierarchy. XML is Lisp's bastard nephew, with uglier syntax and no semantics. Yet XML is poised to enable the creation of a Web of data that dwarfs anything since the Library at Alexandria. This talk examines the design of XQuery, the W3C standard query language for XML, and related standards such as XML Schema.