[Gambas-devel] Hit the users now, or forever be silent

[Charlie]

Benoit Minisini schrieb:

>On Sunday 25 January 2004 00:40, Ahmad Kamal wrote:
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>>I couldn't believe my eyes, HBasic looks so good (haven't tried it yet)
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>>Take a look
>>http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=10225
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>>It's also ver 0.9
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>>so way I see it, GB could really use some publicity now, or it would
>>loose it's position as a really good language
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>I don't think that the quality of a language is a function of its publicity 
>and its version number. Elsewhere, Microsoft Visual Basic would be the best 
>language in the world.
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>Don't trust what you see! Go to the heart of things.
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>The author of HBasic made its language the way he wanted, and so I did. We 
>have different goals.
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>You are in the world of free software, and free software users must not judge 
>things with a consommer mentality, and understand the difference between 
>competition and emulation.
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>For example, as HBasic can do automatic instruction completion, I will be 
>pressed to it, but not because of the concurrency, but because it is cool, 
>and users want it.
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>Even if you think the two languages are under the same "Visual-Basic" banner 
>because of their external look, I'm sure they aren't. The technical 
>differences between the two projects are huge. 
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>I am sure that Gambas and HBasic are totally different languages, almost like 
>Perl and Python! (I can't confirm, because the last time I downloaded HBasic, 
>I can't succeed in compiling it. Maybe I should retry?)
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>I'm sure that somebody can add a Visual-Basic like IDE to Perl and Python too. 
>Then, who will be the better ?
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>If others VB-like languages fell down, it is just because their developers 
>stopped worked on them, because they have no time, no more interest, or 
>because the project was badly designed... I don't know. But surely not 
>because they didn't have publicity!
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>If someone don't like Gambas, it is free not to use it. This is not a problem. 
>Of course, I made Gambas because in my deep I think this is the "right" way to 
>do a VB-like language. But I'm not completely stubborn, and I added many 
>features requested by users. And so Gambas becomes the proprietary of its 
>users too.
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>So if you want Gambas to have publicity, just do it :-) And if you want to 
>compare the audience of the two languages, go to the statistic pages of 
>sourceforge.
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>Regards,
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>P.S. Will you update the Arabic translation, Ahmad ? ;-) I find Gambas in 
>arabic beautiful!
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Thank you for this mail, and not falling into "G" commes befor "H"

Charlie