These days, generally when someone references BASIC they are asking about a Microsoft implementation - either VB.NET or VB6. Are there any dialects/versions of BASIC still actively used outside of the Microsoft implementations?
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"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."
But if you want to see a very large list of BASIC dialects and implemntations go to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_BASIC_dialects
backslash17
2010-02-01 04:10:23
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REALbasic is used for a lot more than just Mac shareware development. It is a very capable cross-platform OO BASIC similar to VB.Net but compiling to native code for Mac, Windows and Linux.
I have used it to write a full graphical CD disk label editor and spent most of 2008/09 working on an enterprise-class in-house accounting and warehouse management system.
I've also used it for communicating to web services and EDI parsing as well as writing an implementation of Karel the Robot using the inbuilt RBScript scripting language.
Andy Dent
2010-02-01 04:47:22
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NS Basic/Desktop is being actively developed. It's a lot easier to use than Visual Studio/Basic.net.
ghenne
2010-02-14 19:47:56