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Dawoodoz

Member Since 11 Feb 2010
Offline Last Active May 07 2013 12:15 PM
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In Topic: System time in floating point seconds since midnight (VB and C#)

03 April 2013 - 07:43 AM

View PostReedbeta, on 02 April 2013 - 08:34 PM, said:

If you just need a high-resolution timer, you can use the Stopwatch class. If you really want the amount of time since midnight (or some other specific time) then you'll probably need to use DateTime.Ticks and convert to floating point yourself.

TotalSeconds from stopwatch worked well. :)

In Topic: Which Language?

02 April 2013 - 07:49 PM

Python is free to use, cross platform and have a very clean syntax. The downsides is that Python is interpreted and don't have compile time type checking.

Java is faster using just in time compilation and also portable. The downside is that Java was created when OOP was new to people so that functional and table driven programming doesn't fit in well.

Visual Basic is not portable but great for learning the basics of procedural programming and making in house office applications since the framework has been working since the first versions of Windows without having to change to any new flashy interface packet.