Various languages for practical use
- Posted by EUWX Mar 26, 2013
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Forked from Re: Ubuntu on tabets
Gambas? xbasic?
"Gambas? xbasic? " I have a client who has a large piece of software written in Visual basic(costing $2000 in its heyday) who want to put it to FOSS. I suggested Mono first, as it is a stable and established software development tool.
No go.
Then on my suggestion, they tried GAMBAS, and again for some unexplained reason they had a lot of glitches and problems.
I like XBASIC myself, and I have the latest version and the windows fork XBASIC 241. The use of the old assembler inside makes it a little dodgy.
Before coming to Euphoria, I worked with it (with a programmer friend) and the moment you go to a larger project, it crashes.
HotBasic is a better alternative and FreeBasic is also excellent.
I have also looked at and supervised a medical software project using Eclipse/Haskell combo. Because of the plethora of Hackage libraries and HackageDB, it was THE choice at the time some 4-5 years ago. Medical software requires use of lower level (Euphoria level) programming and excellent database support because of need to access and use large databases. This interaction is there to some extent in visual Basic, but I want always to avoid the Microsoft platform and dependence. In fact the project has gone the Hadoop route now and into the Cloud. There are problems with Government acceptance of privacy.
Euphoria is nowhere ready for this last mentioned undertaking. My interest (and recommendation of) Euphoria is largely based on Brazilian Lua dissidents needs and needs of the Indian clients where the 4 byte Euphoria character comes in as a BIG winner. Its availability on ARM processors would make it an explosive success. Tablets and memory are getting cheaper and cheaper. At the same time, container loads of discarded P4 and AMD64 based computers to India, Latin America and Africa is something worth noting. They are unbelievably low priced.
