Delphi? Futureproof re vb!

Hi all

I bought a book to see if there was some sense in "upgrading" to dot net!
(assuming that newer is better). The book is the Dummies Guide to VB Net
Express. The book so far has about a fifth of the space taken up saying in
effect what a retrograde step vb net is, thought up by programmers thinking
as programmers and not users, with the "help" even worse, and that VB
express is an attempt to "go back". About a twentieth of the book gives new
(to me...) syntax, and the whole of the rest describes programming concepts
which are easy to understand (variables, loops etc) and are in fact exactly
as vb6. Apparently dot net express is an attempt by Microsoft to get back
to the vb6 concept which they should never have left!

I am unwilling to ditch all I have learned about vb6, which I find adequate
for all I want to do, and at the same time it is obviously a waste of time
to get into dot net given that a) it is so uninstinctive and "up-themselves"
(pardon this) programmer-orientated, by which I mean "never mind the user";
let us revel in our own world", and b) who's to say that after making the
effort I won't be marooned again by Microsoft as they change platforms
again?

So, the alternative seems to be Delphi. Could anyone comment? Is the
similarity of Delphi to vb6 enough to allow easy transition? Will Microsoft
try to break the workability of Delphi with future Windoze versions? Given
that Vista is also apparently a disaster, I wonder if I should ditch
Microsoft entirely and go to say Red Hat?


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