(newbie) I am a student and I'm programming in VB6, C , C++ and Java-script will these work on Mandrake Linux 9.1, if not what should I do

VB6: Don't Know

C/C++: use gcc - it should be already installed. At the command line, type: "g++ progam.cpp", or "cc program.c".

Java: download and install Java from the website.sun. Once you have set it up, you can compile java programs using "javac program.java", and run them using "java program". You will need to set up your PATH and CLASSPATH environment variables, search on LQ to find out how.

I hope this helps
--Ian

C/C++ is the heartland of Linux. The support here is excellent. Wait until you learn of fork and how multi-threaded programming was meant to be

VB6=Visual Basic 6? I doubt that there is any porting of this language to Linux, it being Microsoft proprietary language. There's a ton of alternatives, such as Perl, Python and Ruby. If you have to use VB, maybe it can be run in wine.

As for Javscript, there is lots of possibilities. Mozilla, e.g., has a fairly well-working javascript debugger. It may be helpful to know that javascript is really called ECMA-script. For searching, the use of.

From the languages above, I would say that C++ and Perl would be all you need. It is certainly all I use nowadays..... privately, at least.

How come I don't have gcc on my laptop? I've installed FC4 and updated everything with yum.? Any place to manually download?

VB in linux:http://hbasic.sourceforge.net/

VB6 won't work, but most VB6 programs should be able to run under Wine if you need them to. (Just to point out, though, that VB6 is officially obsolete now; if you must use VB, you'd be a lot better off learning VB.Net)

You mentioned Javascript,but IBall pointed you toward Java ... please note (if you didn't already know) that Java and Javascript are entirely unrelated languages. Both work well in Linux, but be aware of the difference.


But your best bet for programming in Linux by a long way, as the others have already said, is C or C++.


Hope that helps.

Because you haven't installed the development packages.