[Gambas-user] OT:Very nice compliments for gambas :))

[Hans-Martin Bundeshund]

Salute!

Today I presented Gambas to some of my mates at work. As I and they work in a 
IT department, I show the easy usability and simply built a form with some 
textboxes, a combobox and some other components. Then I inserted 
MySQL-support. Their Eyes were so wide open! :))
It was a plesure to see 5 greening people arround my little notebook...

(I have to say that we work with an iSeries also knowen as an AS400 from IBM. 
There are some visual tools to work/develop with, because it is not tgat 
stable and we are told not to use them, so we all work with the green-screen, 
no graphic, only text-console as a terminal-emulator under win2k; and the 
programming language I have to use is called 'ILE-RPG'. This language don't 
have free text (the text hase to be entered at the correct position), you 
have to fill the text into the right column, if not, you get a syntax 
error... (Since 2 years, you are able to work with an op-code called '/free'. 
With this you can write some 'free' text without the column restriction, but 
not all commands work with this. Horror!)

They were really enthusiastic about Gambas! Not even that it is free and open 
source, no, it offers a great and simple to use workbench.

If you have worked with IBM-tools on Midrange or even greater machines before, 
you couldn't believe that writing an application can be so easy and 
comfortable. Unfortunate the iSeries is a *very* stable machine and the 
performance of the inegrated DB2 is excellent. If only Gambas would 
communicate with the DB2 under OS/400...

regards,

HM