Clone of Visual Basic?

[chadm1967]

Hi all,

I know that this is kind of a crazy question but.....

Are there any Visual Basic clones for Linux? I have some small programming tasks at work that I use Visual Basic to complete. I would much rather do them on my Red Hat box but still want to use something like Visual Basic.

Thanks!

[kmj]

Python (http://www.python.org) is great for RAD type stuff; doesn't have a drag&drop GUI builder, but Tkinter is nice and convenient. Advantage: It's clean, and it's a quality language for all types of development.

[chadm1967]

Thanks.

Yeah, I've been reading up on Python. That's definitely a possibility.

I'm just sick of using only Windows 2000 at work when I have a Linux box sitting right next to it.

:)

[kmj]

python is also cross platform with Qt and Tkinter. :)

Plus, for windows development, python's got hooks for COM and stuff, and the win32 API (I think)... (fyi)