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This article was originally released at basicprogramming.org forum
talk of basic vs. python is a lot like talk about yesterday vs. today. i’m not saying basic is necessarily “yesterday” anymore than python is… python is based on some very old ideas, the c language python’s interpreter is usually implemented in is probably even older. what i [...]
I’m not sure how many of you have heard of Rob (Galleon is his nickname). But you might know of some of his projects, the current project is called QB64 and aims to present programmers with a QB clone language that is capable of running in all modern Operating Systems (Such as Windows XP, [...]
If I say the name Pete Berg what comes to your mind? To some perhaps a lot of things, to others it might not even ring a bell. Pete Berg is probably known by just about any QuicKBASIC (and family of compilers) programmer that has an internet connection. Some of the [...]
This article was originally released in PCopy #60
INTRODUCTION:
Here we are, in 2007, using what we’ve come to consider an every day tool. We sit at our computers do whatever we want to do (usually using a GUI of some sort) and program in our favorite language. We live in a perfect harmony (or close [...]
In front page of thinbasic.com reads next lines;
“thinBasic is a script language interpreter. It means thinBasic is able to get a script text file as input and execute it on the fly. No compilation, no intermediate code, just plain text file and go, the script is analyzed and executed immediately.”
And right under that sentence, we [...]
This article was originally released in PCopy #70
Roy Scott probably doesn’t need much of an introduction in the world of basic compilers and interpreters today. Sooner or later you’ve come across his website and/or posts on some forums somewhere at some point if you program in [...]
This article was originally released in PCopy #40
INTRODUCTION:
From the very start BASIC (Beginner’s All purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) has always
represented a language for anyone wanting to do programming. This was true wether the user
was indeed a software developer or not. It was a language that has always [...]
To boldly go…
This article was originally released in PCopy #40
In 1971, Mike Mayfield probably didn’t know what he was starting when he wrote his very first Star Trek game. In the course of the following year, he had already ported it to Hewlett Packard BASIC.
The FreeBASIC community is an interesting one. It came into being like a phoenix, rising from the ashes of the QBASIC community (even though we still call it the Qmunity). QBASIC programmers have brought with them the long experience of decades. After all, if you know QBASIC, you’re right at home with FreeBASIC. Unfortunately, with [...]
No matter where you’ve been in the QMunity, no matter which forum you visit or why you visit them. One name always seems to appear there. A name that always seems to find the time to help you with your questions, to guide your programming projects in the right direction. That name [...]
This article was originally released in PCopy #30
This lists some lesser-known Basic languages that can be found on the Internet. All of these languages are free or Open Source, or are freely available.
This article was originally released in PCopy #20
This article presents an overview of some of the lesser-known basic programming languages. All of these languages are available on the internet are all are either open source, free for non-commercial use or freely available.