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Gambas 1.0 Release Candidate Available

raindog2 writes "After two and a half years of development, Gambas has become the first Visual Basic-style environment for Linux to enter release candidate status. Anyone who has been frustrated by a lack of production-quality free RAD environments should give it a try."

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  1. I sense... by palad1 · · Score: 5, Funny

    A great disturbance in the Force.
    It was like a million voices crying out in unison, then suddenly silenced.

    Thank god the project page is already slashdotted.

  2. Scripting? by aero6dof · · Score: 2, Funny

    Anyone who has been frustrated by a lack of production-quality free RAD environments

    Nope, I have many available RAD environments which lack production-quality.

    But seriously, what about Ruby, Python, and Perl. It seems like there have been plenty of RAD environments available for free.

  3. Interesting by gustgr · · Score: 5, Funny

    In portuguese the word gambá means skunk :-) Well, it is VB-like after all.

    1. Re:Interesting by CerebusUS · · Score: 2, Funny

      Woot VB PRAWN!

      Hot shrimping action in KDE at last.

  4. Totally misread that summary.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Anyone who has been frustrated by a lack of production-quality free RAD environments...

    Production-quality free?

    No, production quality is good.... Must be something else. Maybe they mis-hyphenated?

    Production quality-free?

    Argh....

  5. RAD? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Anyone who has been frustrated by a lack of production-quality free RAD environments should give it a try.

    Personally I prefer Bodacious eviroments over Rad ones!

  6. Re:My wish... by not_a_product_id · · Score: 2, Funny
    actually, I'm currently taking over support for an Access application so right now I'd just like to see Access killed. It is to application development what dog shit is to sandwich fillings.

    (Would be a very good idea to get smaller businesses to look at Linux too.)

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    We spoke for about a half an hour. I don't recall a thing we said. - Colorblind James Experience

  7. Re:My wish... by deuce868 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Ok, who reincarnated Clippy as a sea creature?

  8. Re:No mono or dotgnu? by civilizedINTENSITY · · Score: 4, Funny

    1997? Oh come now. Its all about dynamic typing. In the next ten(?) years OSS and MS will both finally arrive at the peak of programming languages: VisualLisp.

  9. Re:No mono or dotgnu? by tntguy · · Score: 3, Funny

    .net is the answer to: ?xis sulp ruof si tahW