Linux Programming Languages

I looked at my "Linux Essentials" and found a daring ommission.

No mention of Python and computer languages.

No panic.

Thanks to Google Blog site, I had collected tits and bits about  Linux Programming languages

15 of them are reproduced below. 

Gambas

Gambas is a free development environment based on a Basic interpreter with object extensions, a bit like Visual Basic™ (but it is NOT a clone !). Read the introduction for more information.

With Gambas, you can quickly design your program GUI with QT or GTK+, access MySQL, PostgreSQL, Firebird, ODBC and SQLite databases, pilot KDE applications with DCOP, translate your program into any language, create network applications easily, make 3D OpenGL applications, make CGI web applications, and many more robust work

The Gambas project aims at making a graphical development environment based on a Basic interpreter, so that the language is as easy as Visual Basic under Linux but much better and less bugs.

The phenomenal quantity of bugs and inconsistencies in Visual Basic had persuaded developer me to start a fresh project. It seems that Microsoft was aware of the poor quality of its language, as VB, dot-Net (.Net) was not made backward compatible with older versions of Visual Basic.

Gambas does not try to be compatible with Visual Basic, and will never be. Its syntax and internals are far better than the one's seen in its proprietary cousin.

The author who had very good understanding of Visual Basic from childhood, took from Visual Basic, the Basic language, the development environment and the user interfaces and dropped the bad practices in common use of Visual Basic program and made Gambas coherent, logical and reliable as possible.

Features

Below are the main features of Gambas and what sets it apart from the other languages.

Gambas is a Basic language with object extensions. A program written with Gambas is a set of files. Each file describes a class, in terms of object programming. The class files are compiled, then executed by an interpreter. From this point of view, it is very inspired by Java.

Gambas is made up of the following programs:

A compiler.

An interpreter.

An archiver.

A graphical user interface component.

A development environment.

The development environment is written with Gambas itself, so that I can show the abilities of the language and is useful for debugging.

What are the features that set Gambas from the other languages?

1. A Gambas project is stored under one directory. The archiver transforms the project directory structure in one sole executable file.

2. Compiling a project only requires the compilation of the modified classes. Every external reference of a class is solved dynamically at the execution time.

3. Gambas has a component architecture that allows it to extend the language. Anyone can write components as shared libraries that dynamically add new native classes to the interpreter.

Components can be written in Gambas too. The component architecture is documented in the Wiki encyclopaedia.

4. By default, the Gambas interpreter is a text-only program. The component architecture is used for writing the graphical user interface part of the language.

5. As the graphical user interface is implemented as a component, Gambas is independent of any toolkit!

One will be able to write a program, and choose the toolkit later : GTK+, Qt4, etc.

6. The graphical user interface is the Qt4 toolkit. The GTK+ component which is not finished will have almost the same interface as the Qt4 component.

7. Gambas projects are easily translatable, in any language.

8. Its object model is simple but powerful.

About the Author

Welcome to you, curious!

You're going to know almost everything about me...

My name is Benoît Minisini.

I am a French man born in 1972, living in Paris. Programming is one my passion since I was twelve, and is now my job for many years now. This passion started with the Basic language on a CPC Amstrad 464, and later on an Atari 520 STE. Of course, now, I am using many other languages, but I never forgot that I have learned and done a lot with Basic.

I was always fond of writing languages, compilers, assemblers, and interpreters. I wrote a Z80 assembler on Amstrad and an interpreted language that consumed all its memory.

Later, during my studies at the E.P.I.T.A., I wrote a Lisp interpreter under Windows. During six months, I discovered its stupid memory model, the Microsoft compiler, and its numerous bugs.

Today, I keep on raging with the Gambas

Thanks to my boss, I have a half-time job, so I have worked actively on Gambas for the last years.

But I have other passions too, that burns lot of my time. That is music .

I'm playing flute for a long time - and theatre.

So, the development of Gambas is not as fast as it could be.

I hope your curiosity was satisfied...

Acknowledgment

Gambas is build on top of many free software, and could not exist without them.

So I would like to thank every people involved in the following projects:

Linux

KDE

GCC and all of the GNU tools, of course.

The Qt4 toolkit.

The GIMP and its toolkit GTK+

Libre Office.

The MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQLite database management systems.

And any other libraries used by Gambas.

That is enough for as an introduction to language packages. 

My comment 

I pronounce it as Gon (a bull) Bass (is unskilled workman) in Sinhala which is the phrase we use when the workman does a shoddy job. 

But that reference has no slur on this wonderful package which love the most. 

Unfortunately only few of the distributions port it as is. 

That is why I was very expressive here.

It needs to be there for the young newbies to take root in Linux.

Linux Programming Languages

1. Vi was my beginning but later went to Vim.

 

2. PHP MyAdmin was my Samba and Server friend but I do not want to touch it in my old age.

 

3. Perl was my attraction

Being a Writer this was an attraction and quickly settle down on 28MB Abiword.

 

4. Lyx and Gambas (no more Latex now buts it's derivatives)

 

4. Abiword

Is a word processor with a command line functionality.

It is over 250MB and is my work horse and it has its development package but very few has time for it.

 

Debian 12.10- - - dropped it so, I will stick with 12.9--.

 

1. C

Linux is written in C and this where I started coding.

 

2. C++

I did not waste time on C++

 

3. Python

Python was the one which attracted to me on Linux in the book Joy of Linux. 

It is versatile but so long I gave up.

 

4. Java

Java I really liked when it had Java phones which one could manipulate. One cannot find a Java phone now.

 

5. JavaScript

JavaScript I hate because it is cross platform.

 

6. Bash/Shell

Bash/Shell is unique

I still read Linux Bible when I decide to look at a shell script for fun

 

7.  Perl

Perl was my attraction until I settled down in Abiword.

 

8. Go of Google

I collected its package in Ubuntu which was 1.2GB when it became 2.4GB I have it up.

It has over 75 at which level I stopped counting

Go is Linux based and BULKY.

 

9. Ruby

Ruby on rails was web development language which I had a flash when I first developed my first,

 Private Web Phase withWordProcess.com (not .og organisation which has gone commercial now) long before Google was born. 

I still have it and I have forgotten my Yahoo.Mail password (I am going to activate it when I am ready with my 5 books with slow progress. 

Linus fundamental is reaching 450 pages (it has gone above 500). 

I want to keep it as it is and do not want to post any there. It now active but one need to go searching for my web site’s name.

 

10. Rust

Rust is new and I have no knowledge except Ubuntu trying to Reinvent Linux is going to be a either flash in the pan or making money which was not the intention of Ubuntu Master GURU.

 

11. Swift

It is macOS which I have no interest.

 

13.  Haskell

Haskell and compiz compositor is supposed to be for Research Work with very little FAT in its CORE.

It is on black terminal and until it becomes with a simple graphic front I won’t try it.

 

14. R

R is the only statistical package for Linux.

It comes as Octave and is very large package.

I think it was developed in New Zealand.

not when I was roaming in South Island.

 

15. PHP

Server side scripting language which has become plump and may be a pest and takes over your system.