Introduction

Hello, my name is Frans. I’m a retired Senior Electrical Engineer.
I’ve been working with computers since 1983 and programming has been a constant part of my career.

Professionally, I mainly programmed in BASIC and Clipper (dBase), and later worked extensively with Excel VBA.
Since my retirement, I’ve made the switch from Windows to Linux. While doing so, I’ve been revisiting a large collection of my old BASIC — and even some Pascal — programs, looking for a convenient way to keep them usable on modern systems.

That journey is what brought me to Gambas.

Welcome to the Gambas forum.  I to started my programming back in 1982 and eventually got a job in aerospace as a programming. Also using Basic, VB and Clipper.  Most of my programming back then was in the database realm. Today I just write mostly utilities for myself and friends.  I found Gambas to be a really great way to program which in my opinion much better the VB was.

Welcome to gambas.one Frans,

My journey into programming started around the same time (1982), with Basic, Assembler, Fortran and Cobol.
A few years later Pascal and DBaseII (I believe) where added to that list of stuff I was doing.

I found Gambas in 2009, after a transition from Windows to Linux, to never go back.
Linux is like coder heaven, compilers for all kinds of languages I hadn't touched in decades where at my feet.
But once I started using Gambas, even those seemed no longer that interesting anymore. 

Enjoy your stay on the forum…
And feel free to post question if you have any…

P.S. Hallo mensen is geen Engels