Jerry ,
See my other reply re C/C++ , I would be interested in your comments.
I see that you are quite "bold" as some would say coming from the windows
workd. I have yet to take on Emacs or the other linux/unix editors. I found
them reakly confusuing to say the least. So I jave been using Joe for basic
editing.
What are3 codepage and codewarier ??
What obsticals are you finding coming from the windows world??
Re postgress , I am prety sure that I have it installed , and I think that
pgacces is properly installed as well. I plan on reading over the docs this
weekend , then I will tackle the configuration and enviormet settings.
Next I will go on with the tutoriaol. I just finished printing out the
tutorial , users guid and admoin guid. Man , thats a ton of paper , Not to
mention the rogrames guide , that in of its self is a ton ot print out.
Thanks for your input .
At 12:51 AM 4/24/1999 -0500, you wrote:
>Samy Elashmawy wrote:
>>
>> Hi folks, Hope some of you can help me out here.
>> I have dabbled in programing a bit , started out with Clarion for dos ,
>> worked a little with clipper and am now currently using Borlands Delphi.
>
>I've gone from AREV to Advanced Arev to VB to PowerBuilder to FP to
>VFP... somewhat similar to your path. For the last 6 months I have
>been exploring the development area of Linux. I've played with emacs
>and Xemacs (and CVS, which is connected to it), CodeForge, CodeWarrior,
>Visual TCL, Perl, Python, C, Qt, Xforms, XApplications, and some other
>stuff.
>
><snip>
>>
>> SO IF YOU HAD ONLY ONE WHICH WOULD IT BE ?
>>
>> JAVA - tCL/Tkl - Perl or Other??
>
>I wouldn't fixate on just one, but on two or three .... C and a couple
>of good toolkits.
>Toolkit #1: The free version of Qt (1.44 or 2.0 when it comes out)
>because it is what KDE is built with and it is crossplatform
>(Linux-Windows). Another would be Tcl, because it, too, is
>crossplatform. PostgreSQL 6.4 (then 6.5 when it is released) is the SQL
>engine I am focusing on (after trying Oracle, Sybase, MySQL, and some
>others) because it is as powerful as any and the price is right.
>Pgaccess, a Tcl front end to PostgreSQL is very nice, and besides
>Xforms, is about the only WYSIWYG GUI screen designer I've found (yet)
>in the Linux world. I've ordered the book just released from ORilley on
>Qt programming. But, from what I've learned, programming GUI apps with
>Qt and C is similar to doing the same thing with M$ C++, which is not at
>all like VB or Delphi. You don't see what you get till you compile and
>run it. If you are used to the old Borland IDE you can use xwpe, which
>is almost a carbon copy.
>The best debugger is ddd, which is a beautiful gui tool.
>
>>
>> What libs / Third Party variety extensions-addins / reporting tools /
>> database tools are there for your tool of choice ??
>>
>> What will work with SQL ie postgres ect...
>
>PostgreSQL. You already have it running on your box if I remember
>right. Read the docs and see how powerful it is. Do the tutorial,
>create the weather tables, experiment with psql and with pgaccess.
>
>>
>> Is it RAD ??
>
>Visual Tcl (pgaccess) is somewhat RAD.
>
>>
>> Why have you choosen it ??
>
>The shallowest learning curve, free, widely used...
>
>--
>
>JLK
>Linux, because it's STABLE, the source code is included, the price is
>right.
>
>
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