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Re: Programming Language - FreeBASIC
From: W F Jones
Date: 2005 Sep 12, 10:56 -0400
From: W F Jones
Date: 2005 Sep 12, 10:56 -0400
And of course an IDE will make the process a little easier. I can not
vouch for this application but there seems to be a fair amount of
interest in it. Go to URL
http://fbide.sourceforge.net/
otherwise you
will be working at the command line level.
Frank J
> Frank Jones wrote
>
> >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.
>
> Thanks to Frank for finding this version of BASIC, which, if it
> fulfils its promises, may very well be "the answer to the maiden's
> prayer"! It appears to offer just what I was looking for, particularly
> the long-lost ability to GOTO a labelled instruction, thoroughly
> deprecated by all right-thinking programmers, but invaluable
> nevertheless. And I see that FreeBASIC usefully offers ATAN2 as a new
> function which didn't exist in the original language (though its
> documentation in the manual could be a lot better). There are,
> however, warnings about potential bugginess
>
> I've downloaded FreeBASIC with its libraries, and the .pdf manual, but
> haven't yet found out how to start writing code. I will report back
> when I have a bit more experience.
>
> George.
>
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-- Frank