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What's best for you?
If your primary interest is in cranking out a handy little Windows CE utility or game in the least time, PocketC is your best bet. If you're developing a serious software project that requires compound data structures and inheritance, and if you have the Visual C++ Toolkit for Windows CE ready to add extensions, Python is the clear winner. If you're an old LISP hack, obviously Pocket Scheme is the way to go--but check out Python nonetheless. If you're just having fun, on a zero budget, or you've programmed in GWBASIC or QBASIC, Basice is fine place to start.

Product availability and resources
PocketC from OrbWorks is available at http://www.orbworks.com.

Visual Form Buddy is available from http://www.krugsoft.com.

DelC is available http://homepages.tig.com.au/~pcdz/delc/delc.htm.

PythonCE is available from http://www.digicool.com/~brian/PythonCE/index.html.

Pocket Scheme is available at http://www.angrygraycat.com/scheme/pscheme.htm.

Basice is available at http://www.jps.net/deang/basice.htm.

Web sites for Windows CE developers
Visit HPC.net at http://www.windowsce.com.

Visit CEcity Development Software at http://www.wincecity.com/software/hpc/development.html.

Visit CEGlobe HPC Languages at http://www.ceglobe.com/software/Handheld_PC/HPC_Languages.

Visit the Windows CE by Mail website at http://www.microsoft.com/windowsce/products/tips/newsbyemail.asp.

Visit RoadCoders at http://www.roadcoders.com.

Mailing lists and news groups
There are a variety of useful Windows CE mailing lists. These include:

comp.os.ms-windows.ce
http://lists.windowsce.com/WindowsCE-Dev
microsoft.public.windowsce
microsoft.public.win32.programmer.wince
microsoft.public.windowsce.developer.betas
microsoft.public.windowsce.developer.embedded.beta
microsoft.public.wce21.preview
microsoft.public.vc.etk
microsoft.public.vb.vbce

Tom Campbell is a programmer/writer for the Visual Basic team at Microsoft.

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