Gambas 1.0

32 bit

deb fo Ubuntu
deb for Debian
rpm for PCLinuxOS

64 bit

deb for Ubuntu

Gambas is an object-oriented dialect of the BASIC programming language, along with an integrated development environment to accompany it, which runs on Linux and other Unix-like computer operating systems.

It is intended to provide a similar experience for developing
BASIC programs to Visual Basic.

Gambas is intended to be an alternative for former Visual Basic developers who have decided to migrate to GNU/Linux. 'Gambas' is a recursive acronym for Gambas Almost Means Basic.
Gambas is also the word for prawns in the Spanish language,
from which the project's logo is derived.

Developed in Paris by Benoît Minisini since 1999, Gambas is free software, released under the GNU General Public Licence.

The current version as of January 2008, is 2.2.1.

With Gambas developers can:

         * Use databases such as MySQL or PostgreSQL.
         * Build KDE (QT) and GNOME GTK+ applications with DCOP.
         * Translate Visual Basic programs to Gambas and run them under             GNU/Linux.
         * Build network solutions.
         * Create CGI web applications.

Gambas is designed to build graphical applications programs using the Qt toolkit or the GTK+ toolkit;

the Gambas IDE is written in Gambas itself.

Gambas includes a GUI designer to aid in creating user interfaces.

While Gambas is intended to be easy to transition to from Visual Basic, there are important distinctions between the two languages.
One notable example is that Gambas indexes arrays starting with 0 (0..n-1), whereas Visual Basic indexes can start with 0 or 1 and always end with n.

The Gambas runtime environment is needed to run executables.

Gambas is included in a number of GNU/Linux distributions' repositories.
There is a Windows version of Gambas which barely runs
under the Cygwin environment.
Graphical applications do not work under the Windows version.

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