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From: Joseph M. Ferris (josephmferris_at_cox.net)
Date: 02/11/04 

Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 14:33:19 -0700

Joe "Nuke Me Xemu" Foster wrote:

> There /was/ an attempt to clone VB, but Gnome Basic's lead developer
> got mono and became Bill's bitch: URL:http://gnome.org/projects/gb/
> There are other Basic-like languages for Linux, but their developers
> have dedicated themselves to make it as difficult as possible for VB
> macro-coding Real Programmer wannabees to migrate any 'legacy' code.

I actually used Gnome Basic, even in the limited state it was in, on my
Linux development box at home. It was definitely a step in the right
direction. Since the development team did their best interpretation of
'Titanic' with the project, I've been working with Kylix and XBasic a
bit more.

What would be really great would be a group of developers with compiler
experience getting together and creating an open source compiler that
would compile Visual Basic 6 projects. If the two requirements were met
(compiling VB6 and being open source) it would only be a matter of time
before people started picking up on the fact that there is a compiler
that could be utilized to move forward with a Classic-esque version of a
Visual Basic 6 based language. A little orginizational skills could
provide a means to incorporate our actual VB wishlists into the
compilers and there could be numerous people/companies that could write
IDEs for the language using whatever tools they saw fit. It would not
be much of a stretch to see the compiler being supported on multiple
platforms, either.

I wish I had the knowledge and experience to write such a compiler, or
at least contribute. Seriously, I do think that the right project with
the right exposure could give birth to a new (and old) language platform
that would attract a lot of serious interest...

Sounds pretty good. Too bad it is just a dream... ;-)

--Joseph

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