I do agree with Sharninder. Though I do not know much about different basics or development, but as a user I was stick to microsoft only because of MS Office and packages on VB. Problem of MS Office has been eliminated by Open Office (though it is slow, but hope this problem would be solved in next versions), thus I have loaded RHL8.0 on my desktop. But still to run VB programmes I have to request my peers to spare their PC. If any body can develop support or base or any thing else through which I can run VB programmes on Linux PC OR convert VB programmes to packages compatible to Linux. I am sure I will change all my users to Linux. I have tried wine but could not able to run programmes except small one like calculator, etc.
Regards Arun On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 23:47, Sharninder wrote: > before anyone says anything .. i agree that on reading the subject you all > would be saying that i have gone insane but yeah .. VB is one on the > reasons y i still have to program in windows because > 1) like it or not VB is among the most popular languages and most > students like me have to learn it because most companies do projects on > it.2) VB is easy .. though i personally do not think so. I would prefer C > or anything else to VB anyday.3) VB looks nice ... don't flame me .. it's actually >good on windows if > handled properly. > As i have mentioned VB is one of the reasons i still have to boot into > windows. Office was one but with openoffice that reason has almost gone > away. I have to program in VB because my course and my profession demands > it. > now check out the latest issue of linuxfocus ezine (www.linuxfocus.org) > There is a review of the various types of BASICs available for linux/Unix. > My fav. is gnomeBasic which plans to be a drop in replacement for VB. > but the reason that i am writing this mail is that is'nt developing such > beautiful projects like hBASIC, gnomeBasic and KBASIC a waste of > resources. why not pool in and develop a single basic that would beat the > hell out of those redmond guys.Could somebody please forward this to the relevant >kde/gnome/hbasic > mailing lists.I mean look at what happened to that excellent IDE anjuta. Anjuta and >this > other IDE (i forgot .. something g..) were competing for the same segment > and ultimately they decided to merge the code.Agreed ... Free software is all about >choice. Use whichever BASIC IDE you > feel like. But this is for the developers ... this kind of a project > requires immense skill and lots of time and resources. why not pool in the > resources and create one good product instead of three or four competing > products which would never see version 1.0To me hBASIC looks pretty promising as >does gnomeBasic with its goal of > emulating VB. > sharninder > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > Welcome to geek heaven. > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > _______________________________________________ > linux-india-help mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
