"Linønut" <"=?iso-8859-1?Q?lin=F8nut?="@bone.com> wrote in message news:Mt-dnZYtKvaESSTeRVn-hg@comcast.com...
> After takin' a swig o' grog, Leonardo da Jinn belched out this bit o' wisdom:
>
>> For client-GUI programming: "what is better"
>>
>> Is there a free package that does Voice Recognition?
>> Is it blazing fast with graphics?
>> Can the grid fields handle 30,000 plus entries?
>>
>> My assumption is that Linux has no Dev. Env.
>> that comes close to Visual studio / VB6, or
>> even C++ for that matter.
>
> Linux fits retty much all of the above.

I highly doubt that.
Any movies of the environment in action?

> (Not sure about grid controls,
> as that is a thing I never need.)
>
> But you and I are in completely different programming areas, and are
> probably locked into each our own little worlds of coding.

In general.

>
> For what it's worth, I use Visual Studio quite heavily (C/C++). I like
> it for debugging, but for everything else I prefer a good text editor, a
> good layout editor (e.g. Glade), and good old C/C++.

I used it for years. MFC, all that.
Biggest project was a 100+ frame app to manage Oracle Replication.

>
> I would much rather trust STL objects than objects djinned up by
> Microsoft. I like standards. Go figure.

I like functionality. Standards lead to committees and committees
lead to ulcers.
--
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(the biggest clit in pornetry)

>
> --
> I love the smell of code compiling in the morning. It smells like... Freedom.
>