: [newbie] Clipper and Visual Basic languajes
Hm...lets pray that it's still-born.
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Mark
Larry is NOT a cucumber...he's a stinkin pickle...
WITH WARTS!
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Yes, this looks like another eruption of off-topic posts... IMHO, VB should
be ported because that is the only way to achieve portability for MS Office
documents. StarOffice is really cool but ultimately not feasible if you are
exchanging documents with a group of MS Office folks.
Hm...lets pray that it's still-born.
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Mark
Larry is NOT a cucumber...he's a stinkin pickle...
WITH WARTS!
registered linux user # 182469
=/\= PINE 4.21 =/\=
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Surprisingly on Tue, 31 Oct 2000 Larry
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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?
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From: Javier Marcon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTE
At 06:01 PM 11/2/00, you wrote:
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!
Yes, VB is obscene...(I hack
cant say much to it. it could be ported in a way to make it more usable vb in its current state sucks not very versatile. but it had a simple structure to it, well simple for the user anyways its too close to the human language, so it takes a crap load of power to translate it, the major downfall,
Has
someone ported the VB stuff to linux yet?
-Original Message-From: Javier Marcon
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Monday, October 30, 2000 7:15
PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [newbie] Clipper
and Visual Basic languajes
Could somebody tell me where can I get Visual
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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?
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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
, 2000 7:21 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Clipper and Visual Basic languajes
On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Larry Marshall wrote:
Carrol, while there's some debate over whether it's a good idea, I
believe
there is an active project to develop a VB-compatible interpreter for
Linux. I don't know any
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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