As much as I love making stuff for the web I'd like to try to make some applications.

I'd like to start with VB simply because I think it will be the easiest, but I can't afford MS's visual Studio (now they've gone and removed the student license).

So is there anything I can learn for free?
Preferably for windows but Linux would do, or even better something that would run on both. Any suggestions on languages or sites to look at comparing them?


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Microsoft has acknowledged that its engineers substituted certain file names with the phrase, "Netscape engineers are weenies," in some of its internet software.

Oh well now we all know why Nutscrape is so crap!
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