[KLUG Members] Desktop Linux -- A VB & Access developer's view

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> >> Is it possible to create
> >> console-based apps in Linux?
> >Sure, but why?
> Now now now... Many things belong in console mode, but maybe not "client
> server DB apps" if that was the only context.

I'm assuming we are talking about end-user-apps.

> I'll keep grep as a console app thank you very much! ;-)

Is grep even a console app, I thought it was a CLI app.

console = ncurses (full screen text), as far as apps is concerned.  Developing
console apps is brutal given all the vageries of termcap/terminfo.  GUI
developement is easier by a long shot.
 
> Otherwise it would appear to me that a VB developer would best switch to
> Kylix.

Agree.

> It using a mid-level language, has DB back end support, etc... Gee, use
> Delphi in the first place and the port would not have been so hard. As a 
> general word

Yep,  choosing M$-Access/JET as a platform is just cataclysmically short sighted.

> of advise, pick products that do not lock you to a specific platform or
> vendor... M$ offered such WHEN??? NOT!!!!!!

.NET?