Anybody else tried FreeBasic (aka fbc)?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 05:33:34PM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:
>   Freebasic (aka fbc) is free, free, free as in GPL (LGPL for the
> library).  It started off as a QBASIC/Quickbasic clone and it has some
> extensions.  I used QBASIC a lot in DOS and Windows at work (before
> discovering Cygwin and bash scripting).  For stuff where perl is
> overkill, not to mention slow, a Quickbasic clone makes a lot more
> sense.  If you can write QBASIC code (text or graphics), you can write
> fbc.  It currently runs on DOS (32-bit mode), all Windows versions, and
> linux.
> 
>   The "basic" aproach is to write code in a text file, and compile.
> fbc foobar.bas
> ...generates a native executable named foobar.  There is an IDE
> available if you prefer.
> 
>   The project home is http://sourceforge.net/projects/fbc/ and the
> support forum is http://www.freebasic.net

I really don't think I miss BASIC at all.  Nope quite sure.  :)

Why use BASIC when many much nicer languages with saner syntax exist
like OCAML, Python, etc.

Lennart Sorensen
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