[Gambas-user] Gambas 2 - digg and slashdot

[Rob]

On Saturday 05 January 2008 11:38, Fabien Bodard wrote:
> The more bad thing we have do, is to comparate Gambas to vb :(

I don't think either Manuel or I compared Gambas to VB.  In fact, this 
time around I never even mentioned VB in my submissions to the sites.

> Gambas is really not vb ... the only common thing is that gambas is
> a Basic with visual editor... that's all.

Sure enough, but just as people used to refer to Realbasic as "VB for 
the Mac", some people refer to Gambas as "VB for Linux" even though 
they're pretty different dialects of BASIC.

There are a lot of BASIC coders out there.  I think there will be 
fewer and fewer as time goes on because everyone's learning 
Javascript and PHP now to try to cash in on Ajax, but I can't think 
of an easier way for novices to get into Linux development outside of 
the OLPC.

Communicating that in a way that gets news sites (or in the case of 
digg, their members) to carry announcements of new versions is what I 
can't figure out, apparently.

Rob