Carroll,
I thank God for the fact that Hell will NEVER freeze over and VB will
NEVER be ported to Linux. Why in the world would anyone want to foul the
water with manure like that is absolutely obscene from a programmers
perspective!
--
Mark
Larry is NOT a cucumber...he's a stinkin pickle...
WITH WARTS!
registered linux user # 182469
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Surprisingly on Tue, 31 Oct 2000 Carroll Grigsby had this to say!
> Consider:
> 1. Visual Basic is a Microsoft product.
> 2. VB has been developed for the express purpose of writing programs to run
> under Windows.
> 3. Microsoft is not a proponent of open source software (in spite of what
> that Russian guy thinks).
> 4. Linux has strong roots in the C language.
> 5. C (and its descendants) and Basic are totally different worlds (think
> cats and dogs).
> My guess would be that Visual Basic for Linux will occur on the day that
> hell freezes over and the sun rises in the west -- provided that they both
> happen on the same day. On the other hand, strange things do happen --
> remember President Dewey.
> -- Carroll
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mark Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 12:44 PM
> Subject: RE: [newbie] Clipper and Visual Basic languajes
>
>
> > Has someone ported the VB stuff to linux yet?
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Javier Marcon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Monday, October 30, 2000 7:15 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: [newbie] Clipper and Visual Basic languajes
> >
> >
> > Could somebody tell me where can I get Visual Basic and Clipper compilers
> > (for Linux), to make programs in these languajes.
> >
> >
>
>
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