[oclug] Philosophically related question

Sandy MacDonell sandy.macdonell at gmail.com
Wed Oct 24 11:03:30 EDT 2007


Hi Andy,

I use Python, GTK, autohotkey download and Inno installation.
Works great.

Sandy


On 10/24/07, Andy Civil <andycivil at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I know I'm going to be roasted for this, but I have a windoze question.
> Why am I so foolish as to ask Linux people? Because you are exactly the
> kind of people who would understand my question.
>
> I'm looking for a free, preferably FOSS language which can create
> stand-alone GUI programs for the great unwashed to use. It's the
> standalone part that's hard; all the systems that I know (tcl/tk/wish,
> perl etc.) require the installation of an environment or interpreter,
> something that I can't ask my granny to do, or post in a forum as a
> solution to something.
>
> Freebasic <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freebasic> is almost perfect,
> and will do if necessary, but I think I'd have to hold my nose before
> learning something with "basic" in its name. I was hoping for something,
> umm..... a little more "C" like... :-)
>
> Thx.
>
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Sandy


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