[Gambas-devel] Good news!!

[Stephen Bungay]

Benoît Minisini wrote:
>> Hi, Benoît & All:
>>
>> Days ago one friend call me to ask to
>> by a judge in a scientific exposition, my surprise came when he told
>> me that one of the projects was created with gambas by a couple of
>> students. They made a system to turn lights on & off in a house.
>> The use the LPT1 port to interact with the lights.
>>
>> They made it complete by themselves and
>> they are 17 years old!!!!!
>>
>> I just wanted to share this news with
>> you, I think is great that young people are using Gambas in my
>> country (Costa Rica).
>>
>> This shows how easy-to-use and reliable
>> gambas could be.
>>
>> The students are very exited because I
>> told them I will share this news with all of you, if there is
>> something you want me to tell them, just let me know.
>>
>> Best Regards.
>>
>> David.
>>
>>     
>
> I'm very happy with that. 
>
> When I started computing, there was a way for young people to quickly learn 
> programming their computer, because there was a BASIC and a manual for that.
>
> Starting from scratch, we could learn progressively how to program and master 
> a computer.
>
> Today, we have free software, we have the documentation too, but there are so 
> many complex things to learn that mastering a computer is almost impossible.
>
> I remember that I met two young peoples five years ago that were exchanging 
> old versions of Turbo Pascal (or was it Delphi?) on floppy disks to be able to 
> make programs on Windows!
>
> Now, how could we give access to all the things a modern free operating system 
> can do today, in the simplest way possible ?
>
> I tried to give an answer with Gambas, even if that answer is not perfect. 
> Well I did that for fun too. :-)
>
> But your story told me that I didn't completely fail!
>
> Regards,
>
>   
  Benoit, I would say "fail" is not something that GAMBAS has done as it 
is (IMHO) the best RAD package available on the Linux platform.