here is yet another link for quite a few basic interpreters/compilers. http://www.thefreecountry.com/developercity/basic.shtml
----- Original Message ----- From: "Ray Olszewski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jim Reimer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. > > > > > -- > -------------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"-------- > Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo > Palo Alto, California, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
