[Gambas-user] Gambas 2 - digg and slashdot

[Fabien Bodard]

Le Saturday 05 January 2008 19:13:05 manuel viet, vous avez écrit :
> 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... ;-)
>
> But now, my thinking is Gambas should be directed toward those
> who need gambas for what it is. In this crowd, there are many people
> fleeing from the switch between VB 6 and VB .Net. We should target
> the professionnal press accordingly.
>
> Just my 2 cents.
>
> To be a bit more constructive, I tried to write a small article on the
> subject. In french. Certainly not perfect, it's a first draft. So if
> someone think there's something to do with it, some criticism,
> or some ways to build upon it, why not try to come up with a good
> redaction ? I upload it here.
>
> http://www.nabble.com/file/p14636851/gambas-prop.odt gambas-prop.odt
>
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> Manuel Viet

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