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Re:Windows support?
You could have a look at Kbasic (http://www.kbasic.org/1/index) There is a non-functional preview for Windows (nada for Linux though...) OK, so it won't be free but he price is tempting
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Basic on LinuxBenoit's Gambas IDE is a very nice program indeed. Seeing it reach maturity is very satisfying indeed.
I'm surprised noone has mentioned KBasic http://www.kbasic.org/1/index.htmlyet... Also about 2 year in the making, also made by a dedicated individual.
Last week, a non-functioning preview of this Qt-based Linux/Windows IDE (later to support Mac as well) was released, unfortunately only the Windows version. Tried it at work and it looked very nice.
The main thing it has going for me is a QBasic compatibility mode. If you set VERYOLDBASIC to true, the promise is that you then have a more or less capable Qbasic emulator. The only programming I have done was in QBasic about 10 years back. I tried VB when it first came out, but all that event driven, form defining cruft got on my nerves. I'll be very happy to be able to just type 'screen 13' and have some fun again with fractals, cellular automatons and other stupid graphics hacks ( slow as hell in the time of 16Mhz 386sx but soooo much fun...)
The downer to KBasic of course is that the Bern put in SO much work that he decided to charge for it. It'll only be $30 or so, so I'll probably pony up the cash but I guess a lot of people will be p*ssed off because of this. Ah well, it's his code, he gets to decide....
HBasic http://hbasic.sourceforge.net/ also seemed nice but seems to have run in a wall sometime in the last year...
For the Basic affectionados (sans Visual), there is of course the venerable XBasic http://xbasic.sourceforge.net/ and X11-Basic http://x11-basic.sourceforge.net/ tools but these are frozen in time and not really in the same league. -
Re:Google says 1%
Linux is making a pretty big dent regardless of those tools. Nevertheless, since you obviously don't know what you're talking about and dont'care to research, I'll do it for you.
VB:
KBasic
Mono
Access:
knoda
GNOME-DB
(For non-free, I beleive that StarOffice may have something and there's also InterBase.)
The table of equivalents / replacements / analogs of Windows software in Linux. -
Re:Killer app
A lot of our customers love those public folders - particularly for scheduling things.
smbmount combined with konqueror can do wonders. All public folders is a network file folder with the overhead of the DAV protocol and the embeddedness of Outlook. You could also pull the same thing off with Apache and mod_dav using embedded Parts in Konqueror. In fact, browsing should be left to the Explorer/Konqueror/Finder component of the O.S. and not in the Scheduling component.
an easy development tool for X.
QT Designer? Glade? Kommander? It ain't VB, but it's pretty simple stuff. I know there was a BASIC project going for awhile. But, I think it's dead... -
Re:Thoughts on Borland's CLX
What do you think about WebSphere or KDevelop.
Even Basic will be supported by Kdevelop, so it may become a real multilanguage development engine. -
Re:Visual BasicActually, there are a couple of simple ways to write Linux applications, even with graphical GUI builders for those who like them.
Check out:
- Qt Designer
- KDevelop
- KDE Studio
- PyQt/PyKDE (Python bindings for Qt/KDE)
- KBasic
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Linux languages similar to Visual Basic
GNU Basic (www.multimania.com/sxpert/gnuvb/ for the goat wary)
Gnome Basic (www.gnome.org/gb for the goat wary)
KBasic (www.kbasic.org for the goat wary)
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