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Re: Basic and KDE : what policy ?
by Ben on Monday 28/Jul/2003, @17:15

Looking down your nose at basic is exactly why Linux is not more successful. Most windows apps are developed with basic. Enabling this ability for Linux would kick off the biggest development spurt in the history of development spurts. It is petty and short sighted to take the attitude that basic is inferior. Make it superior. Bring those millions who develop things for work they do that keeps them using bill's junk. All the time I have to develop small apps to control some device or make some computation etc. I do this in vb because it is simple and quick. I have tried to make sense out of the socket wrench set plethora of compilers and environments. I don't have a life time to try and make something work. vb works now and fast and uses the c compiler so it executes plenty fast. Or you could just continue on believing the world will adopt what ever you decree. ms works because they try to fill markets like the one you are ignoring.

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Re: Basic and KDE : what policy ?
by AC on Tuesday 29/Jul/2003, @04:02

Is this because Basic is such a brilliant language, or because Basic is just one out of many easy to use languages and the one Microsoft decided to use for its RAD tool?

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Re: Basic and KDE : what policy ?
by Ben on Wednesday 30/Jul/2003, @15:09

It is because so many people/companies use it to develop real world applications. There is a large population of developers just waiting for this to happen. I don't know anyone these days that loves ms or wouldn't like to see Linux be successful. Linux developers have been so long concerned with the operating system, desktop and basic office tools that I don't think they are aware of the real world apps developed in vb. I am in radio and all the database software, which we use to analyze ratings, do traffic logs, accounting etc., are all developed with vb as are most other special purpose softwares. I write engineering programs in vb that are otherwise unavailable to me. While there are probably legitimate arguments regarding quality of these programs, there is the reality that vb brings the possibility of programming to professionals in disciplines other than programming, where their expertise is important. Gbasic set out to develop a vb compatible tool. Assuming it would work, that would instantly make available a huge number of programs. It, like all the others, seems to be dead in the water. Kbasic is dormant. Ybasic almost works has years to go. All these people are working alone and can’t seem to get together. Python with a rad environment like boaconstructor is the one most often put up as a replacement. I am learning that now but I don’t believe most people would go through what is necessary to find/install all the necessary programs then learn a completely new language. Can it really be that hard? Are Linux developers just biased against it? Reminds me of the old saying "cutting off your nose to spite your face". In other words somewhat self defeating. Someone explain this to me please.

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