Funny add

I saw this add on the forum and thought it was a bit amusing. It made me wonder what might be in adjuggler as far as it recognising what to send to each site or if it even cares that it is advertising a competing product here.

Cute :)

I've read about porting code, and read it does not work so well. Is this true? Also read it is normally not worth it. Unless it is within 10% of the original costs to make the product, and some other stats. Any thoughts on this?

I don't see why it's a competing product to Visual Basic. If you're able to use it to port your code to Linux surely that encourages you to continue using basic instead of having to learn C or whatever linux programmers use.

I'm waiting for the next funny multiply. ;)

And what's Real Basic? That doesn't seem to be promoting Visual Basic.

I've read about porting code, and read it does not work so well. Is this true? Also read it is normally not worth it. Unless it is within 10% of the original costs to make the product, and some other stats. Any thoughts on this?
It really depends on the program and how it's written. If it uses a lot of system- or OS-specifiy routines, then yes, it will be hard to port because all those calls will need to be translated, or re-written, etc. A low-level language, such as asembler, is nearly impossible to port easily, unless you go with emulation which is very slow run-time.
Some stuff is easily portable, if you for example write in standard C++ convention, then a compiler on any system should be able to compile it and run it. The big thing is GUI - there is no standard for GUI, so you have to use a library that has been ported to all of your target OSes.

For example, there is a C++ GUI development environment called QT by a company called TrollTech that can compile a C++ GUI program into several different OSes (Win32, Linux, Mac, etc) without needed to be ported.