Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on December 05, 2004 10:15 AM
I can't switch completely to Linux until there's something like VB available. When I say 'like', preferably that would be something which can compile VB projects without modification. (I wish!)
I've been writing in VB since the early 90's, I've developed dozens of apps and there are two recurring themes in the customer feedback I get:
1) they're STABLE. They don't crash. 2) they're user-friendly. (This one's more me than the language)
VB has an underserved reputation as a 'bad' language. I think that comes about because any charlie can pick up a copy, make a form with a couple of buttons and call themselves a programmer. I've found it to be very, very stable, provided you avoid undocumented hacks and weird API calls.
I've taken a look at vb.net but I have megs and megs of source code, and right now I can take my default routines and tools for VB and build a utility in no time. It's a second language to me, I'm comfortable with it and I have no intention of learning another.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on December 05, 2004 10:15 AMI've been writing in VB since the early 90's, I've developed dozens of apps and there are two recurring themes in the customer feedback I get:
1) they're STABLE. They don't crash.
2) they're user-friendly. (This one's more me than the language)
VB has an underserved reputation as a 'bad' language. I think that comes about because any charlie can pick up a copy, make a form with a couple of buttons and call themselves a programmer. I've found it to be very, very stable, provided you avoid undocumented hacks and weird API calls.
I've taken a look at vb.net but I have megs and megs of source code, and right now I can take my default routines and tools for VB and build a utility in no time. It's a second language to me, I'm comfortable with it and I have no intention of learning another.
Cheers
Simon
www.spacejock.com
PS I don't think Gambas is open source.
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