Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 17:35:14 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim Vanderhoek <tim@ppp6564.on.sympatico.ca> To: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Visual Basic under FreeBSD? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970724172340.21186A-100000@ppp6564.on.sympatico.ca> In-Reply-To: <33C1AEBC.6CC@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co>
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On Mon, 7 Jul 1997, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote: > I'm back to porting, but I don't have time for this and it looks > interesting although not necessarily portable (and IMO VB sucks ;-) ): > http://SoftworksLtd.com/vbvm.html Actually, if you read far enough down their webpage, it does list FreeBSD as one of the systems it has been ported to. (although I don't see an FBSD version on their ftp site). However, this will only run programs that are compiled with MicroSoft Visual Basic. These programs will still be written on a MicroSoft OS, using what is (currently) a language only available by paying Microsoft money. This drops any encouragement for MS Win VB programmers to learn about non VB, non-MS languages (this, in fact, is basically the stated purpose in creating this vbvm). This is one of the few times where I think the unavailability of a piece of technology on FreeBSD will do more good than its availability. :-( Rather than seeing this vbvm, I would love to see a VB compiler on FreeBSD. Anyways, since it also looks like it will not be freely available (either a demo or other) once it finished, I don't think it would make a good "port" candidate. -- tIM...HOEk OPTIMIZATION: the process of using many one-letter variables names hoping that the resultant code will run faster.
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