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If you want to learn to program I STRONGLY reccomend that you
do NOT start with C. It is powerfull, but it is a very steep learning
curve.
Pascal is OK, but BASIC has been around for eons and it is ... well
pretty basic!
VB is a slow bloated pig, but it has somehow become an industry
standard, however it CANNOT produce a DLL that tradestation can
call. I would reccomend going down the DLL road to start with
because it saves you writing all the charting and data mangaement
code. You can begin small and work up. Once you have you DLL
writen you can call it from anything, a standalone app you write,
another open platform, Metastock, System Navigator etc etc.
So you ask, what language do you write a DLL in if VB is not the
answer? PowerBasic. It is small, fast and very quick to learn. The
message boards are full of ex C++ programmers that switched to
PB and you can get help within minutes. It has full access to the
windows API and can create DLLs or full blown EXEs without any
darn runtime modules like VB.
I used this language for the first time a few years ago and I dont
use anything else now.
http://www.powerbasic.com/products/pbdll32/default.asp
Regards
Mike
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