[CVALE] Idea for a C Programming Project...TuxScribble

[Joshua J. Kugler]

On Friday 16 June 2006 12:02, Landon Blake said something like:
> Thanks for the reference Terry. I took a look at Gambas, which was
> very interesting. Its to bad its coupled with KDE, or I might have
> had to join the project. (I'm a Gnome guy, myself.)
>
> I also don't think I will be using a BASIC like syntax. I just want
> to mimic the close integration with the GUI widgets that you find in
> Visual Basic. It's the "build the GUI first - then write the code
> that makes it work" philosophy of program design. Not very Linux
> like, but I'm going to try it out.
>
> I've actually done some more reading, and I think I can make the
> language couple tightly not just with GTK+, but also Gnome. This will
> allow the user to build desktop apps that integrate nicely with the
> desktop. :] We'll see how it works out...

You can write code with Mono that couples pretty tightly with Gnome, if 
you like.  And creating a new language on top of Mono/.Net would allow 
your compiled programs to produce/consume other .Net classes, as well 
as run on any platform supported by .Net.  You also might want to take 
a look at "boo" http://boo.codehaus.org/  Python based, but statically 
typed, and somewhat simplified.  http://nemerle.org/Main_Page is 
another one that looks quite interesting.

While I'm all for creating a new language as a learning exercise, I 
would recommend taking a portion of that energy and enhance a current 
project.  "Shoulders of giants," and all that.

j

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