shotta is a talented yute,and i think he can code as well as most veteran programmers down here in ja, as some one who has worked with really good coders let me say this dont limited yourself to c++ or pascal i have worked with programmers from the us including those from bank of america
and they all have skillsets of greater than 7 languages,vb is the defacto standard and to be honest delphi and pascal are behind c++ in terms of usage but even though i code in vb i will not say owen cant program because for christ sakes i downt remember much mfc coding,its not hard but i dont walk around with stuff like that.
My skill set:c,c++,visual j++,visual foxpro and basic,vba,php,asp,java via jbuilder n-tier(com+,dcom atl and all that).philpotts use the best language for the job so dont use c to write a hunman resource app when vb and sql will suffice peace and utech for life