[HN Gopher] A Beginner's Guide to GAMBAS (2005) [pdf]
___________________________________________________________________
A Beginner's Guide to GAMBAS (2005) [pdf]
Author : dragonbonheur
Score : 16 points
Date : 2024-01-22 12:22 UTC (1 days ago)
(HTM) web link (distro.ibiblio.org)
(TXT) w3m dump (distro.ibiblio.org)
| jruohonen wrote:
| That might be something for a rainy day. If I recall correctly,
| Fort has probably been my "worst" (i.e., the most useless)
| language learning experience thus far.
| Pet_Ant wrote:
| Do you mean "Forth" perhaps?
| jruohonen wrote:
| Of course!
| Gys wrote:
| A programming language, pdf was published in 2005.
| dang wrote:
| Year added above. Thanks!
| Pet_Ant wrote:
| Always wondered why Gambas never made it big. Seemed like it
| should have been a hit with the educational market.
| 29athrowaway wrote:
| The project name is a bad start. Visual Basic made very clear
| what it was about. Gambas? sounds weird.
| jeroenhd wrote:
| I recently used it for a quick and dirty GUI application.
|
| I sure don't miss Visual Basic, but Gambas is still great for
| producing applications. I would've preferred a "build me a
| statically linked executable" button, though; distributing
| Gambas applications isn't as easy as I would've liked.
| dale_glass wrote:
| Looking at it...
|
| Bad support for Windows, runs in Cygwin.
|
| Not compatible with Visual Basic, including trivial
| incompatibilities that are immediately inconvenient (like
| different choice of file extensions).
|
| But most important, as somebody who did a bunch of VB6 long
| ago: VB was marketed as "glue" for components that did lots of
| fancy stuff. Damn near everything in VB used a bunch of
| external components. CCRP project common controls, database
| interfaces, random junk that came with Microsoft Office like
| the Office menu controls, the Internet Explorer engine, Crystal
| Reports, you name it.
|
| VB had the ability to use random OCX files that were on the
| developer's system for completely unknown reasons. You
| installed some random tool, and just got the corresponding OCX
| in the VB UI, and if you weren't too concerned about copyright
| issues you could just use it like that and package it into the
| installer. You didn't need any sort of development package, an
| OCX was usable on its own.
|
| Reproducing all of this on Linux would have been impossible.
|
| If you were a fan of VB you had no reason not to do it on
| Windows, and pirating Windows and VB wasn't hard back in the
| day.
|
| The amount of people who wanted to write VB on Linux without
| any of what made it an useful tool on Windows would be tiny.
| elteto wrote:
| For a moment I thought this would be a culinary introduction to
| cooking shrimp.
| nerdponx wrote:
| The book cover does appear to feature an anthropomorphic
| shrimp.
| chibi_giant wrote:
| Really thought this was going to be a guide to gambling. I need
| to spend less time on Twitch.
| dang wrote:
| Related:
|
| _Gambas Basic - A Linux Basic Flavor in the Spirit of VB_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37481718 - Sept 2023 (1
| comment)
|
| _Gambas Almost Means BASIC_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35361192 - March 2023 (47
| comments)
|
| _Gambas: Visual Basic on Linux_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22574385 - March 2020 (82
| comments)
___________________________________________________________________
(page generated 2024-01-23 23:01 UTC)