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Let me throw in my comments as EL system writer/programmer and a VB guru for
6 years. Granted VB is a far more developed programming language with better
debugging capability, IDE, etc. than TS/EL; but if anyone thinks they can
simply buy VB and just start writing systems they are misguided. You'ld
better be a great programmer or prepared to hire someone like me because TS
and EL have soooo many trading tools and functions that you'ld have to
recreate; unless perhaps you buy software such as TradeLabs that apparently
has trading functionality and hooks for VB. Even then it's ease of use would
be dependant on how well TradeLabs (or whatever) is written in it's ability
to give you power when using VB. For example, VB itself does not understand
the words buy, sell, high, low, plot, profit.
At 10:25 AM 7/16/98 -0500, you wrote:
>Orphelin@xxxxxxx wrote:
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>> (3) Begin familiarizing yourself with Visual Basic;
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>> Easy like 123 for programmers.
>> If you are not really one, and if you have some dificulties with Easy
>> Language, VB will not solve them for you.
>> Think also to the time to spend to convert years of programming code in EL
>> into VB.
>> Think also debugging.
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>I've tried to stay out of all this, but I cannot help not saying
>something here. There is no comparison between the rudimentary
>EL development and VB's IDE, to say nothing of the limited features
>of EL and the state of its documentation. If you thought only
>of debugging, then you couldn't make the switch to a real language
>fast enough. A switch from EL to VB will not solve an inherent
>lack of programming skills, but the choices of methods to cure
>one's lack of programming skills are better, to understate the
>obvious.
>
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>> Also think: How much my time costs to me to learn a new software, a new
>> language, a new way to debug my custom VB programs.
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>EL debugging is circa 1960's. Everyone with any serious programming
>intentions will be enthusiastic about the improvement in less than
>a day of use. You can still debug the EL way, if you really, really
>prefer to put in a maze of print statements.
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>Rod
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