[Gambas-user] non-blinding theme

[Rob]

On Saturday 12 April 2008 01:53, kevinfishburne wrote:
> Awesome, I'm glad you like it. That will be my first open-source
> contribution (though a small one). Keep up the good work on Gambas.
> It's truly a killer app; I rank it up there with OpenOffice and
> Apache. I'm strongly considering adding it as a default installed
> app on the PCs I sell. 

I wish that Linux distributors WOULD include an easy-to-understand 
language and IDE by default, just as DOS came with a version of BASIC 
for the first 15 years of its life and every home computer from the 
Amiga on back included it as well.

It's hard to believe nowadays, but when I was growing up almost 
everyone who had a computer learned to program it.  Granted, everyone 
who had a computer was kind of a nerd 25 years ago, but I still think 
there would be more opportunities for learning if the Gambas IDE were 
installed by default.  

But most people who put together distros seem to think, "Eh, if 
someone wants to make a program, they should have to learn how to 
write code in vi or emacs, learn a command-line compiler or 
interpreter, learn how to design forms using system calls by 
specifying the geometry manually, and learn how to write a Gtk or Qt 
event loop."  It's like they never walked up to a computer in a store 
and wrote 

10 PRINT "I was here!!!"
20 GOTO 10

probably because most of them are too young to remember that BASIC 
ever had line numbers.

By the way, if you've been having trouble reading the fonts in the 
Gambas editor, try switching from Courier to Bitstream Vera Sans Mono 
or DejaVu Sans Mono, both of which should be in every Linux distro at 
this point.  (If not, Lucida Console and Lucida Typewriter aren't bad 
either.)  They seem much bolder and easier to read.

Rob