Thanks Peter, I finally found a couple links that gave me ideas about what to search for. I will search for some of the items you mentioned. I should have specified that I was hoping for Open Source or inexpensive products. I don't want to go to Oracle. They once wanted to find me $5000 for not upgrading their $500 package I bought years ago. They are too rich for my blood. I used to program in dBase almost as a second nature. I have never had any luck programming in C. I gave it up years ago due to lack of support and the time it required to learn to do some of the simplest things. I don't really want to learn a whole new language, but if there were one easy enough to learn that had a good visual interface like visual basic I might be interested. If it happens to have a windows version as well, it would be a plus. I guess that saving time in being able to do all the little things I want to do is the important thing, but my budget doesn't permit me to farm out much of the work. Thanks for your response. I will look them up now. Buck -----Original Message----- From: psyche-list-admin@redhat.com [mailto:psyche-list-admin@redhat.com] On Behalf Of Peter Boy Sent: Saturday, January 25, 2003 3:26 PM To: psyche-list@redhat.com Subject: Re: What programming languages are available for Linux? Am Sam, 2003-01-25 um 20.34 schrieb Buck: > What kinds of programming languages are available for Linux? > I know about C, but what about BASIC, Pascal, or xBase? > (xBase is dBase compatible code to those who might wonder.) > Are there any "visual" type programming languages for Linux? > What kind of database programs and languages are available? For xBase you may check codebase (http://www.codebase.com, some sort of C/C++ library to handle dbase/clipper files) or FlagShip and dbMan (a sort of clipper compiler and a basic dbase implementation, see: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1083 for a detailed description). There are several Pascal implementations, too, e.g. freepascal and another one I just don't remember. And there is Kylix, the Borland Pascal/Delphi dialekt. There is java available and a very good and powerful ide (www.netbeans.org) And there is a huge number of database programms, most of them are "real" databases (database engines), e.g. mySql (ok, some sort of "real"), postgreSql, Oracle, db2. There are smaller ones, too, search sourceforge for databases. Maybe you can get more specific advice if you tell us some details obout your developement plannings. Peter -- Peter Boy <pboy@barkhof.uni-bremen.de> Univiversity of Bremen -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
