[Gambas-user] Why is Gambas so frowned upon in the Linux programming community

[Hamish Robertson]

Hah! What a cool thread! I'm a COMPLETE newbie to programming, and only
settled on GAMBAS after checking everything else out.

This is why I settled on GAMBAS, and why thousands of other people will too;

I didn't have to learn about GUI bindings, linking glade (Or the KDE equiv)
to the code.
I didn't have to worry about memory management (Well a little, but not the
hardcore C++ stuff)
I didn't have to worry about make files
I didn't have to learn how to package my program for 300 different distros
when it's finished.
I don't have to think about libraries

All this lops a few YEARS off the learning curve. I'm serious. GAMBAS was
the only FOSS language that I could find that integrated the RAD, IDE and
Language together in one tightly knit and stable package.

I couldn't care less that it's not an elitist language. It gets the job done
well and QUICKLY, and allows a complete dufus like me to contribute to FOSS,
whereas before I could not.

H.







On 31/03/2008, richard terry <rterry at ...1822...> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 08:58:39 am jbskaggs wrote:
> > I have been looking for people to help me alpha / beta test my program
> by
> > going to the ubuntu forums and asking for volunteers.
> >
> > One of the responses was this snippy response that People in the Ubuntu
> > community do not use a vb clone and they would not like to either.  That
> I
> > should use Python or C++.
>
>
> Beats me, I loved python, but boy, wxPython sucks big time, and its
> millions
> of times quicker developing in Gambas - once your learning curve improves
> you
> discover more and more to like, and things just seem to work.
>
>
> >
> > SO I searched the web for other forums looking for people to help or
> > volunteer and I saw the same comments over and over.
>
>
> I did volunteer - you sent no reply, so if you want a tester, mail me.
>
>
> Richard
>
>
> >
> > What is the deal with these people?  Not everybody wants to learn a
> > hardcore language and just wants to create apps, why is that so frowned
> > upon?
> >
> > Is it because VB was used in windows?  or that Gambas is tearing down a
> > wall of superiority of linux programmers.
> >
> >
> > It reminds me of firebuilding in the boy scouts:
> >
> > The hardcore guys would spend three or four hours building a fire with
> > flint and steel, or wood and bow.  While the kids with common sense used
> a
> > match. Yeah if you can start a fire with flint you can build a fire
> > anywhere, but 99% of the time a match is superior.
> >
> > Is there a better reason than well you NEED to know how to program
> without
> > crutches like gui generation, why I should learn harder languages if
> Gambas
> > does everything I want?
> >
> > JB
>
>
>
>
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