[GRLUG] GAMBAS

[Michael Mol]

On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Matt
Michielsen<mattmichielsen at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 3:27 PM, Michael Mol <mikemol at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Steve Romanow<slestak989 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Michael Mol wrote:
>> >> Hey, Steve, you mentioned you code in BASIC, right?  Have you played
>> >> around with GAMBAS much?
>> >>
>> >>
>> > No, I just use it in my day job.  I would never solve any pf my own
>> > problems with it.  Never had any desire to play with the Personal
>> > Editions of my db.  Id rather learn python.  Thanks though.
>>
>> I was just curious, because it has a lot of integration with toolkits
>> like Gtk and wxWidgets.  I tried playing with it a bit in college, but
>> my QuickBasic had gotten so rusty that I wound up setting it aside and
>> not returning to it.
>>
>
> Mono's VB (.NET) support works pretty well:
>
> http://www.mono-project.com/Visual_Basic

I hated working with VB.NET when it first came into force at GRCC.
Years of knowing VB6 syntax inside and out, and VB.Net proved to be an
entirely different beast.  They even changed the array syntax on me.


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