[Gambas-user] Re: linux and ...the lack of Visual Basic...and the comunity of devX.com

[Nelson Ferraz]

> > By the project author's own admission, Gambas is not code-compatible
> > with VB. Gambas is an interesting project; however, it's not going to
> > attract many VB programmers unless you can directly import most or all
> > of their existing code. You might be able to gain a few developers
> > switching to Linux though, and I'm perfectly willing to let you write an
> > article on Gambas if you like--introducing it to the DevX programming
> > community and probably to some open source proponents as well. Let me
> > know if you're interested in that. Anything you write should definitely
> > show code examples--and should definitely compare those examples to
> > equivalent Visual Basic code. 
> 
> Sorry, but I am a gambas begeaner and my english is too bad to write an article, 
> (even a mail like this one :) )...but maybe someone at the gambas list would 
> like do it ;)

Rob and I have worked on a small script to convert VB forms to Gambas.
Perhaps we could go beyond that, and write a small article comparing
Gambas to VB.

What do you think, Rob?

(Thanks for forwarding this message to the list, Luis Alberto!)

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Nelson

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