Re: (X and other) basics (was: A few more things...)

["Brandon George" <bmg143@cometlink.com>]

here is yet another link for quite a few basic interpreters/compilers.
http://www.thefreecountry.com/developercity/basic.shtml


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From: "Ray Olszewski" <ray@comarre.com>
To: "Jim Reimer" <wa5rrh@arrl.net>; <linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org>
Sent: Sunday, October 20, 2002 2:10 PM
Subject: Re: (X and other) basics (was: A few more things...)


> OK. Now that we're just talking about Basic (not VisualBasic, which was
> where this thread started), there are a ton of choices. I can't speak to
> quality, though ... just quantity. Some have already been suggested by
others.
>
> A quick search through the Debian package system turned up these two:
>
>          yabasic - Yet Another BASIC interpreter
>          bwbasic - Bywater BASIC Interpreter
>
> TUCOWS (http://linux.tucows.com/system/basic.html) lists 6, the above two
plus
>
>          Chipmunk BASIC (I think this is the one that Slackware used to
> include)
>          Cubix
>          ScriptBasic
>          STLBasic
>
> Others that Google turned up ("linux BASIC interpreter", then following
> links a few steps in) include
>
>          X11-BASIC (http://sourceforge.net/projects/x11-basic)
>          ABSCIC (http://students.bath.ac.uk/cs1ars/b21lin2.html)
>          Blassic (http://www.xente.mundo-r.com/notfound/blassic/)
>          htBasic (http://www.techsoft.de/htbasic/linux.htm)
>          smallBasic (http://smallbasic.sourceforge.net/)
>          wxBasic (http://wxbasic.sourceforge.net/)
>          KBasic (http://www.kbasic.org/1/home.php3) - not released yet
>          Gnome Basic (http://www.gnome.org/projects/gb/) - not released
yet
>          gambas (http://gambas.sourceforge.net/)
>          Mole Basic (http://www.xs4all.nl/~merty/mole/)
>          Bas (http://www.moria.de/~michael/bas/)
>          Brandy Basic V (http://www.argonet.co.uk/users/dave_daniels/)
>          gnbasic (http://www.excamera.com/articles/12/gnbasic.html)
>
> I skipped the BASIC interpreters written in Java; theere are several of
> them as well.
>
> Most of the ones I listed are not gui-dependent; just from their names,
you
> can pretty much spot the few that are.
>
> At 01:39 PM 10/20/02 -0500, Jim Reimer wrote:
> >Elias Athanasopoulos wrote:
> >>On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 05:09:55PM +0000, Heimo Claasen wrote:
> >>
> >>>The dependence on a GUI is indeed a bad thing. I did mention XBasic
> >>>because that seems to be the _only_ Basic dialect to be found for the
> >>>Linux environment at all.
> >>
> >>No. There is a BASIC interpreter for Unix. Make some Google search.
> >>Actually it was part of the standard installation of Slackware 3.0
> >>system, but I can't recall the name.
> >
> >
> >bwbasic?  Used to use that on a SCO Unix system.
>
>
>
>
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