VB is what is referred to as a R.A.D. tool (Rapid Application Development). If proper class lbraries of widgets are developed in C++ for BeOS then the RAD tool idea would not follow far behind. The truth is, it's very easy to learn to program in C++. Give yourself a nice liberal 6 months tooling around with the BeOS libraries and codewarrior. If you want RAD tools after that....... Occasionaly I think to myself that it would be nice to have a RAD tool for building apps on the BeOS. It's nice to be able to count on the meat code rather than the skeleton so much. Peter > Hello, > > My thought is what if we developed a VB like > language for openbeos, people could write apps > a lot faster, new people to the os would find it easy > to code in, and i think that we would get a lot more > apps to the os, which would in return encourage > people to stick with the os. > > i dunno just a thought =/ > >