Programming in Linux 1

[TonyScarpelli]

Back about 20 years I used to program a Unix machine. It was on an Onix computer with a whole 5 meg of memory. In fact I still have it.

I am interested in getting a Linux machine to play with or installing Linux on one of my computers.

Right now I do a lot of FoxPro, VB .NET and SQL Server programming with Microsoft products.

I am interested in graphical user interfaces and databases.

I was wondering what program would I be using to write such programs on a Linux computer?

Thanks.


Tony Scarpelli
Clinical Engineering Dept.
Maine Medical Center
Portland, Maine 04102

 

[thedaver]

PHP or Perl are pretty common, open-source languages

MySQL

http://www.mysql.com

is the prevailing fave for DBMS

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[xwb]

GUIs - try FLTK. It is easier to use than Motif and XView. Alternatively, if you have a MS/MFC bias, try WxWindows or if you want to go OO, try QT. Takes a while to get round QT philosophy - the event handling mechanism is a bit inverted but that's just a personal opinion.

You can always use KDE, that is similar to Motif.

 

[grande]

I'd also say to try Ruby. It's a nice open source language that made programming fun again.

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C# Master.
Ruby on Rails Admirer.
ActionScript Student.
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[TonyScarpelli]

Thanks. I looked at Ruby a bit last year; even bought two books on it, too. Maybe I'll look at it again.

I've been doing a lot of Visual Studio VB.NET programming, so how about IronRuby:

http://tssblog.blogs.techtarget.com/2007/10/30/is-ruby-the-new-vb/

CU


Tony Scarpelli
Clinical Engineering Dept.
Maine Medical Center
Portland, Maine 04102

 

[elsenorjose]

If you're familiar with Ruby, you might try Python.

http://www.python.org/about/

 

[xwb]

Since you're into web services, you could try mono on

http://www.mono-project.com/CSharp_Compiler

It is C# on Linux if you like that sort of thing. It is C#V3.0 as well, which means it has templates.

 

[stefanwagner]

Of course Java with its JDBC interface comes to mind.
Postgresql is a great database.
MySql and Orcale are popular too.

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[xwb]

Java has swing for GUIs

If you want a very simple database, try sqlite - works on embedded systems too.

 

[jstreich]

Java and eclipse, g++ with any of the window manager's libraries (GTK or QT [watch licensing on QT]) and Emacs/XEmacs or eclipse. IDEs are very much seperated from the compiler on Linux so you can get a number of IDEs on top of any number of languages.

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