On Thursday 10 May 2001 02:19, John S. Gage wrote:
> If I thought that this was just the tortured imaginings of my ignorant
> soul, I wouldn't post this. But this is a real problem. Things like PHP
> are doing far more for open source than the Linux kernel is.
Is that so?
1.) I do not think that the language is the big issue in programming. You can
always have Python which beats VB hands down in terms of ease and
productivity and is not limited in the way PHP is.
2.) Pointy-clicky IDEs / RAD tools are much more the issue. They are coming.
VDKBuilder is a very decent and mature system. KDevelop in conjunction with
QTDesigner makes writing KDE/QT software a breeze. Using glade, you are open
to use languages other than C/C++ due to their XML interface - you "paint"
your user interface in a similar way VB users do.
3.) However, there is no lackof open source developers anyway. Look at
freshmeat.net: it is a bloody avalaunche!
Horst
