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[Ken Schrock]

Radoslav Dejanovic wrote:

>On Saturday 24 May 2003 02:23 am, Ken Schrock wrote:
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>>There is a massive need for cross platform development tools
>>The market for a simple, effective, cross platform tool is obvious
>>(I have Kylix, Delphi, VB, Glade, Forte, perl, tcl, none of them do it)
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>And to add some salt to the injury, my company is focused on Linux/Unix 
>solutions, yet it is the Windows people who do not complain much about the
>support price. :) Being in need to develop some lite marketing software for 
>both Linux and Windows, I've run across Runtime Revolution (www.runrev.com), 
>which offer quite nice RAD that can compile for Windows, Mac OS X (and less), 
>Linux and many other flavours of Unix. I would really like if some easy tool 
>like Gambas could produce binaries for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows.
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Well, the problem of most Linux users wanting all things free is a 
separate issue

And thanks for the tip on Runtime Revolution, but it doesn't really fit 
my needs
I interact with mostly newbies and low an medium level users in various ways
I find interpreted language tools to be best suited to the things I do 
most of the time
I can build a basic app for them that does what they want to do (or 
think they do)
And then later, when they want to add\change something for some reason
Tell them to go to line 126 and insert the following blah, blah, blah
Or do it myself and send them one simple file

At some point, if this kind of system continues
Most get to the point where they can carry the ball themselves
They become self sufficient and the world has another programmer

For this kind of work VB 1.0 was almost a perfect tool
It was small, simple, cheap, easy to obtain, stable for years
And since at most it was one small library and some text files
It was a breeze to distribute an application in many different ways

I use Linux and love Linux, but I often still need to do this, for Win 
users too
I would love to have a simple, small, free or cheap development tool to use
Gambas seems to be that, as it is right now (I can work around the edges)
If it were cross platform it would only make it 100 times better to use
Gambas could become what Java promised but never delivered

And yes, Gambas for the Mac would be way cool

>But perhaps we should wait for Gambas to get some maturity on Linux platform 
>first, before migrating to other platforms? 
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You mean wait until Gambas is big and ugly like VB 4.0 before it is ported?
No, that would be a really bad thing. It should happen now while it is 
still small
As to help it stay that way, so it doesn't become the mess VB or Java or 
perl has
Less is more. Do one thing (or a small group of things) and do it well. Etc.

Basic.

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