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This might be a really off the wall question, but are there any Basic version on Linux that are free and similar to Qbasic that was shipped with DOS.

Now I'm referring to QBasic not QuickBasic (QuickBasic had a compiler and QBasic was interpreted)

Before anyone goes off on why I would want to use something like that instead of Python, PHP, C, Perl, Bash or any of a number of other languages that are better, faster, more capable, please don't bother. This question is to satisfy the hobbiest in me. Just looking to have fun with it, not do serious work.

Thanks

mowestusa

mowestusa wrote:This might be a really off the wall question, but are there any Basic version on Linux that are free and similar to Qbasic that was shipped with DOS.
Now I'm referring to QBasic not QuickBasic (QuickBasic had a compiler and QBasic was interpreted)
Before anyone goes off on why I would want to use something like that instead of Python, PHP, C, Perl, Bash or any of a number of other languages that are better, faster, more capable, please don't bother. This question is to satisfy the hobbiest in me. Just looking to have fun with it, not do serious work.
Thanks
mowestusa

http://www.scriptbasic.com/html/index.html
http://www.freebasic.net/

There is <a href="http://wxbasic.sourceforge.net/">wxBasic</a>.

Another project that has achieve some notoriety is <a href="http://gambas.sourceforge.net/">Gambas</a>, but Gambas makes use of Object Extensions and may not be what you are looking for.

mowestusa wrote:This question is to satisfy the hobbiest in me. Just looking to have fun with it, not do serious work.

I second wxBasic. But if you want to tickle your hacker bone, try haskell

thetza wrote: I second wxBasic. But if you want to tickle your hacker bone, try haskell

Thanks for the suggestions. I think that wxBasic and Gambas are getting pretty far from QBasic. I started learning QBasic about 4 years ago (free with Win95 and Win98 which I ran back then), had some fun, so I was looking to pick up a basic language on the linux side that is styled the same, has similar functions and key words, so that I could use some of the old QBasic examples with little tweaking and get them to run under linux.

wxBasic and Gambas look cool if you want to develope visual applications with Basic like syntax.

Linc's suggestion of FreeBasic is great because it is a clone of QuickBasic 4.5, but the programs need to be compiled before running and testing. I would like an interpreted environment like QBasic 1.1 which was included with DOS 6.22 (quicker road to fun). I started looked at Scriptbasic which might be the ticket.

Just curious, anybody try one of these basic languages for a project? (Like I said above, I know that real programers use C, C++, Perl, Python, and others)

mowestusa