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Visual Basic on GNU/Linux

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the but-why-you-might-ask dept.

jeevesbond writes "The Mono Project announced that it has developed a Visual Basic compiler that will enable software developers who use Microsoft Visual Basic to run their applications on any platform that supports Mono, such as Linux, without any code modifications."

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  1. basically by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    A full grown stallion's cock, when fully erect, will measure some two to three
    feet long. It can be three to six inches thick at the base, to about two inches
    thick at the head.

  2. bit3h by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    though I have never at my freelance appeared...saying Today. It's about

  3. You may now flame him. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    He is full of love.

  4. Big waste of time!!! by Yaa+101 · · Score: 0, Troll

    I always thought that mono is a dumb project that will enable MS to make the stupid claims on OSS as it does.
    The developers are wasting their own time and ours as community while making life dangerous for us OSS developers.

    I will never touch anything that is even remotely connected to what MS is doing.

    Big waste of time!!!

    1. Re:Big waste of time!!! by a1mint · · Score: 0, Troll

      I wholeheartedly agree. I can't for the life understand why these bloody wankers are polluting Linux with their stupid useless completely unnecessary microsoft crap. Even Red Hat is falling into the trap, with that stupid defunct Beagle product, which, by the way, will put your cpu to 100% even when it's not doing anything, on a stock FC6 that is.

  5. Re:Worrying trend... by Miguel+de+Icaza · · Score: -1, Troll

    Either the quote is wrong, or I had was distracted when I said so.

    The runtime was developed entirely by Sequent, with some help from SCO in a few areas. IBM was not involved in this process, am sorry for the miss-understanding.

    The runtime and compiler were pretty much done before I was aware of any discussions between SCO and IBM. The major change since September has been that the compiler became self-hosting on Monterey (compiles itself, and compiles its own runtime) and that we have had a chance to go from a research project to a product (of course, we will keep improving it)

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    Before adopting WHATWG, read the moonlight.NET EULA [http://www.microsoft.com/interop/msnovellcollab/moonlight.mspx]
  6. Re:OS X Intel? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Please stop wasting people's precious time with your pipe dream implementations. no real programmers is going to use them.