Then I'd recommend Delphi 6. It's free if you don't have any cash. If you do have cash to spare then go for Delphi 7, or 8 which can use .Net. I always recommend Delphi instead of C++. You can do most of what you do in C++ in Pascal, but you don't have to learn greek to do it.
And the IDE with all its components make it fairly easy to create simple apps right away. And when you want to do something more complex it's fairly easy to do. Delphi relies a lot less on ActiveX and uses code libraries instead, and these code libraries work directly on the API.
The code is a lot easier to read than C++ too, and is almost as easy to read as Basic.
An example.
A Dark Basic function:
FUNCTION Something(x, y, t$)
x = x + y
tString = T + " " + x
ENDFUNCTION tString
A Visual Basic Function
Public Function Something(ByVal x As Long, ByVal y As Long, Byval T As String) As String
Dim tString As String
x = x + y
tString = T & " " & x
Something = tString
End Function
A Pascal (Delphi) function
Function Something(x: integer, y: integer, T: String): String
var
tString: String;
begin
x := x + y;
tString := T + " " + x;
Result := tString;
End;
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