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Viktor · Aug 2nd, 2006, 12:41 AM

Can I use VB under Linux? If not what tool would be better to use instead?

AntiNinja · Aug 2nd, 2006, 12:46 AM

Java sure as hell will!

big_k105 · Aug 2nd, 2006, 12:50 AM

RealBasic is a cross platform version of Visual Basic from what I have heard. There is also Mono project can do Visual Basic .NET

http://www.realsoftware.com/products/
http://www.mono-project.com/Languages

Those are really the only alternatives I have ran across but maybe there are more.

Booooze · Aug 3rd, 2006, 12:02 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Viktor

Can I use VB under Linux? If not what tool would be better to use instead?

Screw that, take the time and learn Java.

AntiNinja · Aug 3rd, 2006, 12:06 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Booooze

Screw that, take the time and learn Java.

Yeah, baby!

ReggaetonKing · Aug 3rd, 2006, 1:28 AM

Go for it! Java is easy and A LOOOT more powerful. Plus it looks better on your resume,

Arevos · Aug 3rd, 2006, 2:08 AM

There's also Python, which is dynamically typed and doesn't have the syntaxical overhead of Java. In this fashion, it would seem to me to be more like Visual Basic; however, I'm not an expert on VB, so I may be mistaken.

King · Aug 3rd, 2006, 4:55 PM

I think you should go ahead and learn Java over VB/RealBasic, for Wndows and Linux. The only thing that VB has over Java is the speed of making forms.

Mad_guy · Aug 3rd, 2006, 6:51 PM

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Originally Posted by reggaeton_king

A LOOOT more powerful.

I disagree. I could take the time to write an INTERCAL equivilant of a Java program if I really wanted, they have an equal amount of computation power (look into turing-completeness.) Thing is that each language has it's own certain features that faciliate the process (normally at least, INTERCAL is a move in the opposite direction really, but it still has an equal amount of power when compared to Java, same goes for visual basic.)

Dameon · Aug 3rd, 2006, 7:35 PM

Java -- Write once, test everywhere...

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