BASIC Programming IDE's...

[Brian Fahrlander]

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Shawn McCuan wrote:
> Are there any other BASIC IDE's other than Gambas?
> Gambas is better suited for KDE development than gnome development...
> 
> I still dont know enough about C/C++ to make anything useful...but, I'm
> very experienced in BASIC languages such as VB and RealBasic (And RB
> runs like crap on Feisty, so its out of the question...plus i would
> prefer something open source.)

   As a guy in your shoes, I'd *love* an IDE, as well as the background
to go with it.  One of the things that vaulted DOS->Windows was a couple
of decent IDEs; applications even came with them for their own
languages, like Dbase3+, Foxbase, those kinda guys. There were cottage
industries that sprung up all over, during these early years.

   Linux needs that.

   Under (sco) Unix, I developed for Informix in their 4GL package...now
THAT was a fun challenge. Great reporting, easy form creation,
validation, just a huge chest of building blocks to make applications
that really did things.

   I've been waiting for something like this, too, for GTK; most seem to
require more C/C++ knowledge than I have time to learn. Don't get me
wrong: this is a really cool set of Windows-friendly libraries and a
great way to make real, honest-to-goodness apps....it's just got a lot
of details.

   ...or at least it always has, while I've been looking at'em. If
anyone knows of something like this, please let us know!

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