On Tuesday 15 Jul 2003 7:00 pm, Hal Ashburner wrote: <SNIP> > Out of interest, does anybody know the best way to write GUI > based apps fast under Linux? There might be a bit of a market > down that path over the next couple of years as a bunch of > organisations migrate to Linux for all the right reasons, then > realise they have a bunch of apps that have to be ported that > are written in VB & VBA... Perl Tk? > Tcl/Tk? > Glade perl? > Python Tk? > XBasic? > evem Kylix? (Not free, boo!) > Anyone know anything about Qt's recent relase of a scripting > language? > > (No kudos for anyone who suggests C & GTK+ :) I mean fast for > an idiot like me, drag & drool if you will...) There was a project Phoenix BASIC that looked pretty good at one stage. I wrote a few simple apps in it to try it out a couple of years ago. It used the same basic structure as VB but I think it has died. Janus software were the authors.
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