[Gambas-user] Marketing

[Benoit Minisini]

On vendredi 30 novembre 2007, Werner wrote:
> > English is not my language, so I am not aware of all the meaning hidden
> > behind words and expressions.
> >
> > "Gambas almost means BASIC" is just a recursive acronym, it does not aim
> > at meaning actually anything. Anyway, "almost means" should not mean the
> > same thing as "almost is" as you wrote.
> >
> > The Gambas shrine is just another play on words.
> >
> > I don't know if this is the best *we* can do, but it is just what *I*
> > did. :-)
> >
> > What is underlying is that I don't want to take Gambas and computing
> > languages too seriously. I don't like marketing too. I am not good at
> > that anyway.
> >
> > This is a programming language, and a development environment. The only
> > real way to know what there is inside is using it. So I could have put
> > random words on the web site main page, I don't think it would have
> > change a lot of thing. :-)
> >
> > But if you have some proposal to make the web site clearer and better,
> > you are welcome to send them.
> >
> > Regards,
>
> How about something like
>
>         The easiest way to write a program for Linux.
>
> or
>         Programming in the Fast Lane
>
> I started using Gambas as I needed to write a fairly simple GUI program
> really quick but I had not written software in over a decade and my
> knowledge of Linux was almost nil. It would be interesting to know why
> other people started using it.
>

The easiest way... Maybe, I don't use any other language that Gambas, C and 
C++. And a bit of bash sometimes. :-)

I largelery prefer individual testimonies than marketing. :-)

Maybe that you are disappointed by the website contents because it does not 
reflect what Gambas is for you. So why not writing your own point of view? 
And, as you said, why not centralize the testimonies of other people: why 
they are using it, what they like, what they dislike...

I just don't have the time and the motivation to do that myself, so if you can 
do it, you are welcome!

Regards,

-- 
Benoit Minisini