Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Farnsworth" Newsgroups: comp.lang.basic.visual.misc Subject: Re: Call in Visual Basic a Cygwin executable Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2012 10:56:56 -0400 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 27 Message-ID: References: <6ee09681-b78d-4a7b-b083-02a7cf63db4e@googlegroups.com> <5c8e88a6-6538-4f7e-9d80-2498ea6a8f98@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 2zkn8lvDl69X1tm9Wtth7A.user.speranza.aioe.org X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3028 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Original X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3028 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.basic.visual.misc:1367 "arkkimede" wrote in message news:5c8e88a6-6538-4f7e-9d80-2498ea6a8f98@googlegroups.com... > On Wednesday, July 18, 2012 12:33:00 PM UTC+2, Farnsworth wrote: >> Why not stick with C and use Qt or GTK+? Both are multiplatform and have >> small runtime: >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qt_%28framework%29 >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GTK%2B > > I explored these languages and VB seems to me the easier. > Usually every language, after the classical application "Hello, World", > become complex and it is hard to find examples that introduce, step by > step, all the language elements. Here is another Basic variant I am considering, which costs 79 Euro(about $104 USD), so it's not expensive. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PureBasic http://www.purebasic.com/ I develop mostly shareware, and so it's important to me to have minimum dependency.