On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 04:35:35PM +0800, Gino LV.Ledesma wrote: > Visual Basic is admittedly good for Rapid Application Development. It > can get things done in a jiffy -- although that's at times a problem (a > recursion of level 2 killed my RAD calculator. Sheesh!). ;)
Perhaps a Free Software alternative that uses Guile as the base language might be more useful. At least Scheme as implemented by Guile is a *real* language. It will (probably) not choke if you do things like what Gino is describing which are supposed to be perfectly legal. And using Guile may well allow people to see that there are other programming paradigms besides the imperative one which everyone knows and whose programming minds have all been biased to. By the way, has Microsoft ever produced a development product that implemented a non-imperative programming language? Something like Lisp, SML, Prolog, or whatnot? Seems that all of their development products have been solely on imperative languages or object-oriented variants thereof. -- Rafael R. Sevilla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +63(2) 8177746 ext. 8311 Programmer, Inter.Net Philippines +63(917) 4458925 http://dido.ph.inter.net/ OpenPGP Key ID: 0x5CDA17D8 Heute die Welt und Morgen das Sonnensystem! _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
