After having converted from WIN to LINUX there was
one thing I missed: A good Basic-programming tool.
I allways used Basic (QB, QBASIC) when still using Dos/Win. Per accident I found qb2c (rather unknown).
I tried it and was amazed about the orthodox way the
QB syntax is implemented. After having installed it
along with a GCC and the essential Motif libraries
I could start writing programms within minutes.
Now I use qb2c to solve soil related spatial analysis
problems (as i used to do under Dos/win).
I can highly recomend qb2c as a "methadone" for DOS/QB-
junkies.
Pleasant is the spartanic GUI-Element function block,
it forces you to work rather on your problem than waste
to much time on superfluid GUI-feature design.

Just try qb2c, neat stuff!
Guen