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A Community Devoted to the Preservation and Practice of Celestial Navigation and Other Methods of Traditional Wayfinding
From: W F Jones
Date: 2005 Sep 11, 15:33 -0400
The following URL offers a compatible form of BASIC that is open- source and free. A Binary is available for 32-bit MS Windows (95/98/NT/2000/XP) environment. The syntax is described as very compatible with MS-QuickBASIC (including the GFX statements) and includes new features such as pointers, unsigned data types, inline-assembly, a pre-processor and many others.
I have no experience with FreeBASIC The BASIC programming language did for a while provide a common language for scientist/engineers to exchange work. I remember untangling more than one 'goto' programming problem! Since then many other languages have come and gone.
FreeBASIC is located at http://sourceforge.net/projects/fbc/ for those that wish to download and try it out. I did not attempt to determine the state of FreeBASIC documentation but it is probably good.
Regards
Frank J
