Benoît Minisini is a French
programmer
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best known for programming the
Gambas
Gambas is an object-oriented dialect of the BASIC programming language, and an integrated development environment that accompanies it. Designed to run on Linux and other Unix-like computer operating systems, its name is a recursive acronym for ...
graphical development environment.
Starting programming when he was twelve, he became interested in writing languages, compilers, assemblers, and interpreters.
This interest and a respect for the
BASIC
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Science and technology
* BASIC, a computer programming language
* Basic (chemistry), having the properties of a base
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Entertainment
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...
programming language caused him to create
Gambas
Gambas is an object-oriented dialect of the BASIC programming language, and an integrated development environment that accompanies it. Designed to run on Linux and other Unix-like computer operating systems, its name is a recursive acronym for ...
, which is inspired by
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* Visual Basic (.NET), the current version of Visual Basic launched in 2002 which runs on .NET
* Visual Basic (classic), the original Visual Basic suppo ...
. Benoît has said that he intended
Gambas
Gambas is an object-oriented dialect of the BASIC programming language, and an integrated development environment that accompanies it. Designed to run on Linux and other Unix-like computer operating systems, its name is a recursive acronym for ...
to have the best features of
Visual Basic Visual Basic is a name for a family of programming languages from Microsoft. It may refer to:
* Visual Basic (.NET), the current version of Visual Basic launched in 2002 which runs on .NET
* Visual Basic (classic), the original Visual Basic suppo ...
, without the numerous bugs and flaws he sees in the program and the language. Benoît has a part-time software job, studied at
École Pour l'Informatique et les Techniques Avancées
The École Pour l'Informatique et les Techniques Avancées (), more commonly known as EPITA, is a private French ''grande école'' specialized in the field of computer science and software engineering created in 1984 by Patrice Dumoucel. It is ...
and lives in
Paris
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,
France
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.
See also
*
Gambas
Gambas is an object-oriented dialect of the BASIC programming language, and an integrated development environment that accompanies it. Designed to run on Linux and other Unix-like computer operating systems, its name is a recursive acronym for ...
References
External links
Benoît Minisini InterviewBenoît Minisini Meeting at FOSDEM (Spanish)Benoît Minisini Interview (Czech)
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Living people
French computer programmers
Programming language designers
Free software programmers
1973 births
BASIC programming language