[Gambas-user] gambas in german press

[Rob]

On Wednesday 26 January 2005 10:29, Daniel Campos wrote:
> To help translating it with google:
> " Benoit Minisini hat die Version 1.0 seiner Gambas genannten

Or by a human, for a still-imperfect but probably more readable 
version :)

Benoit Minisini has published version 1.0 of his Gambas graphical 
BASIC development environment.  With this BASIC you use a 
dialect with object-oriented extensions.  Gambas has many 
parallels to Microsoft Visual Basic, but the author insists it's 
not meant as a clone.  So, for example, the implementations of 
Str$(), Val() or CStr() behave differently than with VB, 
controls are defined as private, in Break Mode you can't make 
changes to the code, and simple data types like Integer or 
Strings can only be passed into functions by value, but not by 
reference.  The Gambas documentation reveals the details of 
these differences.  In coming versions, Minisini plans to 
introduce several extensions, such as libxml2-provided XML 
functions, Perl-compatible regular expressions, persistent 
objects or GTK+ support for programming graphical user 
interfaces.  So far, you can use only the C++ framework Qt by 
the Norwegian company Trolltech for Gambas applications.  The 
development environment is available for compiling under Linux.  
Binary packages are available for different distrbutions (for 
example, Debian Sarge, Fedora Core 2, Gentoo or Suse.)

Rob