which technology is best for stabilty, maintenance, speed etc

[sachin]

Hi Group,

I have stand alone application. I want to choose a technology which can give
me stabilty for 5 to 6 yrs, good runtime speed(uses internet). Should be
able to use low level programming like calling APIs, performing registry
level programming. I have options like

VC++
VB
Any .Net language
......
.......

U people have any idea on this matter?

Sachin

 

[Guest]

Hi Group,

I have stand alone application. I want to choose a technology which can give
me stabilty for 5 to 6 yrs, good runtime speed(uses internet). Should be
able to use low level programming like calling APIs, performing registry
level programming. I have options like

VC++
VB
Any .Net language
.....
......

U people have any idea on this matter?

Sachin

Have you considered AS400 ? Can't be beaten for a stable system. Either
running or for OS upgrades

 

[Vincent Finn]

Hi Group,

I have stand alone application. I want to choose a technology which can give
me stabilty for 5 to 6 yrs, good runtime speed(uses internet). Should be
able to use low level programming like calling APIs, performing registry
level programming. I have options like

VC++
VB
Any .Net language
.....
......

U people have any idea on this matter?

Sachin

Well VB is has been dropped by MS so rule that out

VC++ should have support for a long time to come but isn't good for
the internet (does everything else well)

C#\VB.Net is probably your best bet since MS have put so much money
into them they won't abandon them in the next 5 or 6 years (although
if I was asked a few years ago I'd have said they'd never drop VB and
they did)
It makes the internet side of things really easy
The APIs are currently incomplete but that'll change and you can still
access them it's just a bit clunky
The only thing lacking is real grunt and fine control over your
resources (memory etc...) this doesn't matter for a lot of programs
though.

That said I'd choose C# as your main language (GUI and web etc...) but
keep VC++ as a back up since sometimes you need the extra speed and
low-level control

Vin

 

[Hal Rosser]

Don't count java out

Hi Group,

I have stand alone application. I want to choose a technology which can give
me stabilty for 5 to 6 yrs, good runtime speed(uses internet). Should be
able to use low level programming like calling APIs, performing registry
level programming. I have options like

VC++
VB
Any .Net language
.....
......

U people have any idea on this matter?

Sachin