give me vi and g++ anyday. delphi is a good oop I once made a point of sale program with delphi (pascal) that used access for the database and incorperated a barcode scanner and took care of all the buisness aspects of a golf courses club house. It is faster to make a prog in delphi than c++ in my opinion. but if you want to make a program that doesnt need as much code perl is the way to go.