15.4. 15.4 Programming in C/C++ and HLA
Without question, the most popular language used to develop applications is, uh, Visual Basic. We're not going to worry about interfacing Visual Basic to assembly in this text for two reasons: (1) Visual Basic programmers will get better control and performance from their code if they learn Delphi/Kylix, and (2) Visual Basic's interface to assembly is via dynamic linked libraries (which is just beyond the scope of this text, because DLLs are very OS specific). Coming in second as the development language of choice is C/C++. The C/C++ interface to assembly language is a bit different than Pascal/Kylix. That's why this section appears in this text.
Unlike Pascal/Kylix, that has only a single vendor, there are ...
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