It is not a still-born .... follow this url for more info
http://www.helixcode.com/tech/gb.php3
Ingo
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Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2000 10:03 PM
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Subject: Re: [newbie] Clipper and Visual Basic languajes
Hmmmmm...lets pray that it's still-born.
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Mark
Larry is NOT a cucumber...he's a stinkin pickle...
WITH WARTS!
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Surprisingly on Tue, 31 Oct 2000 Larry Marshall had this to say!
> > 2. VB has been developed for the express purpose of writing programs to
run
> > under Windows.
> > 3. Microsoft is not a proponent of open source software (in spite of
what
> > that Russian guy thinks).
> > 4. Linux has strong roots in the C language.
> > 5. C (and its descendants) and Basic are totally different worlds (think
> > cats and dogs).
> > My guess would be that Visual Basic for Linux will occur on the day that
> > hell freezes over and the sun rises in the west -- provided that they
both
> > happen on the same day. On the other hand, strange things do happen --
> > remember President Dewey.
>
> Carrol, while there's some debate over whether it's a good idea, I believe
> there is an active project to develop a VB-compatible interpreter for
> Linux. I don't know any of the details of that project however.
>
> As for MS and Linux, you might find them involved a bit sooner than that
> :-)
>
>
> Cheers --- Larry
>
>
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