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

[Russell Jones]

Nelson:

As I said in my email to Luis, I'd be glad to publish information
comparing and contrasting Gambas to VB. 

Let me know.

Thanks,
Russell Jones,
Executive Editor,
DevX.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Nelson Ferraz [mailto:nferraz at ...184...] 
Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 2:36 PM
To: Gambas Mailing List
Cc: Russell Jones
Subject: Re: [Gambas-user] Re: linux and ...the lack of Visual
Basic...andthe comunity of devX.com


> > 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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