[oclug] Philosophically related question

[James Lockie]

Sandy MacDonell wrote:
> Hi Andy,
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> I use Python, GTK, autohotkey download and Inno installation.
> Works great.
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> Sandy
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> On 10/24/07, Andy Civil <andycivil at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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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>> Andy
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java
I think my Dad uses: freepascal.org with the Delphi libraries.