At 05:52 10-2-2003 -0500, Erik Reuter wrote:
AFAIK there are only two real big players in the field of programming languages: Micro$oft and Borland. Borland don't give their products away, and probably don't sell them under $100, but if you don't mind using an older version you should be able to pick that up for less than $100 at on-line auctions, or at computer stores as soon as the latest version is released (that's how I picked up Red Hat Linux 7.2 for EUR 30 instead of EUR 230 -- version 8 had arrived).On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 07:35:38PM +0900, G. D. Akin wrote: > I have taken VB and VBA on and find I actually like it a lot.Ugh. I don't do a lot under Windows, but one thing I would like to have is an alternative to MS Visual Basic. Is there a non-MS programming language, as easy to use with the graphical interfaces of the OS as Visual Basic, and preferably free or very cheap (<$100)? Anyone?
Or you could ask for it right here on this list! IIRC we have several programmers here; maybe one of them upgraded to a newer version of a non-M$ programming language and is willing to sell you the previous version for cheap.
One comment about buying it at on-line auctions: make sure that the software on offer comes *with* the manuals. A few years ago I was looking for this kind of stuff, and found that it's often just the software (without the manuals) that's being sold.
Jeroen "Free Advice" van Baardwijk
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