[Gambas-user] About help and arrays and variables

[Fabien Bodard]

Le 22 novembre 2010 15:14, Benoît Minisini
<gambas at ...1...> a écrit :
>> On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 4:24 PM, Werner <wdahn at ...1000...> wrote:
>> > On 20/11/10 04:40, Zelimir Ikovic wrote:
>> >> I am following discussion on Gambas more than 3 months.
>> >>
>> >> Last 10 years I worked in VB6 (70%) and C(30%) on Windows.
>> >>
>> >> I am about to switch to Linux, and I have to decide:
>> >> Gambas3, FreePascal (fpGUI or Lazarus) or C, C++ and FLTK
>> >> I am just wondering is there any discussion on this topic, and where.
>> >>
>> >> How do you compare Gambas against those tools
>>
>> Gambas is the smoothest transition from VB in terms of language
>> syntax, the differences are usually
>> thngs most VB programmers would acknowledge as defects in the original
>> language, such as 1-based arrays,
>> overloading ( ) to deference arrays.
>> However Gambas is Linux-only, the advantage of FreePascal and C++ is
>> you can port back to Windows.
>> The Gambas IDE is easier to use and more stable IMHO.
>>
>> Of the three languages (C++, Pascal, Gambas), Gambas is the most
>> high-level. It is fully OOP but lacks the "protected" access level
>> (personally I hardly used it in C++ and don't miss it)
>> The only things I really miss are function pointers ("procedural
>> variables" in Pascal) and a proper heredoc syntax.
>
> In Gambas 3, you have support for callbacks. That means you can send a Gambas
> function to a extern C function, and the extern C function will use it
> (almost) transparently!
>
> As for "heredoc" syntax, I don't know what that word means.

http://www.manuelphp.com/php/language.types.string.syntax.heredoc.php

>
>>
>> Gambas is interpreted, the other 2 are compiled, so it's slower, but
>> in practice I haven't found this an
>> issue (it's heaps faster than Java, and even Ruby, probably on par with
>> Python)
>>
>> Ian
>>
>
> I made a few comparison tests with Python, and Gambas is a little bit faster
> in stupid benchmarks (loops + arithmetic computation). I think it should be
> faster when calling methods inside components written in C/C++ too.
>
> Of course, it is slower than compiled and JIT interpreted languages. But I
> guess it uses less memory and is faster to start.
>
> Regards,
>
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> Benoît Minisini
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