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There was this one vb clone program made by phoenix but i think they went under. Just write vb programs in windows (it will save you time lokking for clones that don't happen to work). As for java I'm sure that your distro of redhat has java already. Java is cross platform and will run on any os that has the jdk/jvm. If it doesn't you can get it from sun. http://java.sun.com/downloads/
Most mainstream languages are included in your install, did you put a full install on?
if not, you should be able to download any language to work on your linux box. except for Microsoft ones, (duh!)
(I mean not copies.. you should be able to get official ones)
Actually, from what I understand you *can* use VB programs within Linux by using the Wine system. However, it seems like too much trouble just to get VB programs running and it also means that everyone who you distribute your program to would need Wine installed. Just use Java. It's not terribly hard to learn, is cross platform, and is more full-featured IMHO than VB.
Oh; and if you take objection to using Sun's java, because they're not open source, then theres other clones (open source) such as blackbox(?) someone correct me if I'm wrong. But, I just use Sun's, because it's free.(as in beer)
VB.NET is a powerfull language, but mainly because of the .NET framework. I'm not familiar with any clones of it, i like the real thing
As far as Java goes. Sun created the language, so there is nothing wrong with getting theirs. As far as i remember it does come with the source. Well on Win at least...
Last edited by coolman0stress; 12-08-2003 at 07:01 PM.
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