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Gambas 1.0 Release Candidate Available

Posted by Hemos on from the getting-ready-for-the-big-time dept.

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. Interesting by gustgr · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  3. 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....

  4. 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.

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

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