Gamba is a port in western Gabon with a population of around 8,000 people. Lying on the Ndogo Lagoon it grew around the Shelloil field and is home to an airport. Seaport, a painting by Claude Lorrain, 1638 A port is a facility at the edge of an ocean, river, or lake for receiving ships and transferring cargo and persons to them. ... For the oil company, see Royal Dutch-Shell. ... Drilling rig in a small oil field Near Sarnia, Ontario, 2001 An oil field is an area with an abundance of oil wells extracting petroleum (oil) from below ground. ...
This makes Gambas a good choice for Linux users who want to use their VB knowledge on a GNU basis.
Gambas makes it very easy to build Linux GUI programs (the Gambas IDE is written in Gambas itself.) using the Qt toolkit.
Developed in Paris by BenoƮt Minisini since 1999, Gambas is released under the GNU General Public Licence, the current version as of March 2006 is 1.0.15 Gambas is included in the SUSE Linux Professional Distribution 9.0.