FreeBasic for Linux

Posted on 29. Jun, 2009 by admin in Software

FreeBASIC is a completely free, open-source, 32-bit BASIC compiler, with syntax similar to MS-QuickBASIC, that adds new features such as pointers, unsigned data types, inline assembly, object orientation, and many others. Most important features: * A large number of variable types available * Arrays * BASIC Compatibility * Built-in gfx library * Clean Syntax * Completely *FREE* * Create OBJ’s, LIB’s, DLL’s, and console or GUI EXE’s * Debugging support * Enumerations (ENUM’s) * Escape characters inside literal strings * Function overloading * Inline Assembly * Most of the known C libraries can be used directly, without wrappers * Multi-platform * Multi-threading * Name spaces * Optimized code generation * Optional function arguments * Pointers * Preprocessor * Typedefs * Unicode support * Unlimited number of symbols * User-defined Types (UDT’s) Tag: