Delphi or Visual Basic?
Borland Delphi is IDE for learning and professional development. Dialect of Object Pascal. Beginning is easy, professional development is hard. In 2012, creating of this IDE do Embarcadero. This company created Delphi XE, XE2, XE3... And more. It is a Embarcadero RAD studio. Visual Basic is interpreter and compiler. Language is easy with beginning development and professional development. Have three versions. First version is version for beginners. Have basic components. Compiler + interpreter. Second version is professional edition. Biggest length of components. Compiler+interpreter. Third version, enterprise edition. Have Delphi typed components (no InterBase, CORBA and more than components). All programming IDE is visual, components drag' drop. What you enable?