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A guide to DLL Hell including everything but the three-headed dog.

The home of REALBasic.

Novell ports a simple Visual Basic app to Linux using REALBasic.

Tim O'Reilly knew about REALBasic before I did.

If REALBasic isn't basic enough for you, try True BASIC, which has 40 year-old roots right back to the original Dartmouth code. True Basic also deploys on Windows and Mac, though not to Linux.