[Gambas-user] Gambas 2 - digg and slashdot

[Fabien Bodard]

Le Saturday 05 January 2008 19:21:05 Benoit Minisini, vous avez écrit :
> On samedi 5 janvier 2008, manuel viet wrote:
> > Rob Kudla wrote:
> > > On Saturday 05 January 2008 11:38, Fabien Bodard wrote:
> > >> The more bad thing we have do, is to comparate Gambas to vb :(
> > >
> > > 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.
> >
> > I can't agree more ; but as Fabien pointed it, basic isn't for nerds. Or
> > at least, it doesn't look cool among those calling themselves nerds.
> > And that's something that's not likely to change. With an afterthought,
> > it might have been wiser to speak of gambas as a "new rad" with an
> > "easy script-like syntax close to python" from the beginning. Those
> > in the know would have winked among themselves... ;-)
>
> As there is a compiler between the BASIC language and the executed
> bytecode, one can imagine another compiler with a C-like syntax, or another
> language. Maybe I should waste my time on that just to make people see
> Gambas differently?

lol ;-)