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Benoît Minisini is a French programmer best known for programming the Gambas 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 programming language caused him to create Gambas, which is inspired by Visual Basic. Benoît has said that he intended Gambas to have the best features of Visual Basic, 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 and lives in Paris, France. Wikipedia  

✵ 1973
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Famous Benoît Minisini Quotes

“I am using many other languages, but I never forgot that I have learned and done a lot with Basic.”

Benoît Minisini

Quoted from the Gambas Website, http://gambas.sourceforge.net/introduction.html http://gambas.sourceforge.net/introduction.html

“When you are doing something, you have against you every people doing the same thing, every people doing the opposite thing, and the very large majority of people doing nothing.”

Benoît Minisini

Quoted from the official Gambas documentation, " http://gambasdoc.org/help/doc/release?view#t1 http://gambasdoc.org/help/doc/release?view#t1"

“During my studies at the E. P. I. T. A., I wrote a Lisp interpreter under Windows 3.1. During six months, I discovered Windows, its stupid memory model, the Microsoft C compiler, and its numerous bugs.”

Benoît Minisini

Quoted from the Gambas Website, http://gambas.sourceforge.net/introduction.html http://gambas.sourceforge.net/introduction.html

“Gambas does not try to be compatible with Visual Basic, and will never be. I'm convinced that its syntax and internals are far better than the one's of its proprietary cousin.”

Benoît Minisini

Quoted from the Gambas Website, http://gambas.sourceforge.net/introduction.html http://gambas.sourceforge.net/introduction.html

“For the same reasons a music composer writes its own symphony, whereas others already did the same things, but differently.”

Benoît Minisini

Answering why he wrote an independent scripting language for Gambas. Quoted from FOSDEM interview, " http://www.madeasy.de/7/benoit.htm http://www.madeasy.de/7/benoit.htm" Mad Easy (2005-02-14)

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