Hey all,

I bet I get a whole lot of "no's" and alot more "h#ll no's", but I will ask anyways. Anyone using RealBasic in Linux and if yes, what for.

Peace

I hate to prove your right, but no I don't use it. I use C/C++ a lot and occasionally I'll dive into a bit of Perl and Ruby, though I by no means consider my proficient in either. I can program in Visual Baisc.NET, not on Linux obviously, if that makes you feel better.

linchat, I hate to break it to you, but BASIC on Linux is a futile game. I came from nothing but Q/QuickBASIC and VisualBASIC programming on Windows, to a lack of BASIC support for Linux, and over the years, I've pretty much given up on BASIC for Linux. I know that there are countless BASIC interpreters, compilers and environments for Linux (RealBasic, Gambas, FreeBASIC - to name a few) but it's nowhere near as welcome on Linux as languages such as C, C++ and Java.

It's almost as though Linux is giving BASIC the cold shoulder.

Alternately, if you want to get programming in Linux, and don't want to learn C, C++ or Java, I recommend taking a look at Lisp. It's syntax is scary when you first look at it, but it's very wordy, like BASIC.

After giving up on the BASIC train, failing to be able to understand C/C++ pointers, and getting really annoyed with Java, Lisp is where I reside in the Linux programming world.

Lisp "very wordy" - You are joking, right?

The problem with BASIC is, actually, that it is too basic. BASIC should really be put out to pasture like Algol and Modula-2.

There are plenty of good languages that do everything Basic does that you can use on Linux. Ruby has become the new cool language to use for example. It has a nice syntax that I find familiar coming from VB.Net.

Yeah, Ruby is nice. I personally think of it as Lisp with M-Expressions. Because I like Lisp and C, it feels really natural.

Is Lisp well supported cross-platform GUI programming? Are there any good tools / IDE's available for it? How about cross-plat GUI Libs? Are there any better sites on LIsp, the ones I saw do not offer much info.


Ultimately my quest is, can I write GUI apps for mac, lin and win without opening a huge can of worms?

Thanks.

There are Lisp binding for SDL and wxWidgets, but I haven't used them. YMMV

when I said "very wordy", I was thinking of LOOP structures ( (loop for x from 1 to 100 collecting x) ). But you're right, nontheless.

I'm pretty sure there are also [Common] Lisp bindings for GTK+2, Tk, etc...

However, linchat, if you're looking to do cross-platform programming, especially GUI, I would have to recommend Java. You could use Lisp for that, but then you'd have to worry about platform-specific compiling.

Is Java on par with say C#/.Net in the performance arena?

Does Java come with html viewer? Are there any libs that allow you to edit html?

Probably...I know there's XML classes.