Gambas
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Gambas is a programming language for Linux which attempts to mimic the ease of use of Visual Basic while improving on its functionality. Although Gambas is not source code compatible with Visual Basic, it is a Basic Interpreter with object-oriented extensions. Gambas is released under the GNU General Public Licence.

Gambas is an acronym for Gambas almost means basic. Gambas makes it very easy to build linux programs with a GUI. It uses Qt to create the GUI.

There ist a Windows version of Gambas, which has no copyright problems in contrast to Visual Basic.

Gambas has been developed by Benoît Minisini, who lives near Paris, France.

The current version (Feb 2004) is:

• 0.84a

Gambas is distributed by the Linux Professional Distribution 9.0 from Suse and is installed correctly.

With Gambas you can easily

• make a program with a grafic user interface [GUI]]
• use datebases like MySQL or PostgreSQL
• build KDE applications with DCOP
• translate your programs in other languages.
• offer Visual Basic programs under Linux.
• build network solutions

Gambas is improving every month and can be recommended to all linux- and windows users, who want to use their VB knowledge on a GNU basis.

The IDE surface of Gambas is writen by Gambas itself.

License: GPL

Alternatives

• Hbasic for Linux
  • http://hbasic.sourceforge.net/
• VB for Windows

Citations

• "This project aims at making a graphical development environment based on a Basic interpreter, so that we have a language like Visual Basic under Linux."
• "If you pass the responsibilty for the pc operating system only to one company , then this is just the same, as if you would sell the abc or the integers to this company."

External Link

• http://gambas.sourceforge.net/ Gambas Webseite
• http://www.TheEasyGambasDoku.de/
• http://www.binara.com/gambas-wiki/bin/view/Gambas/WebHome
• http://www.madeasy.de/7/prgmini.htm
  • miniprograms to test Gambas in german

Gambas is the Spanish word for shrimp.

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