[GRLUG] GAMBAS

[Matt Michielsen]

On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Michael Mol <mikemol at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
>
I much prefer the changes made with the transition to VB.NET, although I
still prefer C# much more.

-mm
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