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

[Ray Olszewski <ray@comarre.com>]

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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