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Programming with the Gambas Basic IDE

BACK TO BASIC

Author(s): FRANK WIEDUWILT

Gambas is a fast and easy tool for writing graphical desktop applications in basic.

If you owned a home computer in the 1980s, you are probably familiar with the Basic programming language. Basic survived into the age of the Windows PC; however, the language was never as popular on Linux, which comes with several powerful alternatives. Projects such as HBasic or wx- Basic showed much promise but didn’t survive for long in the wild. KBasic , which was originally designed to provide a Basic environment for KDE, still exists as a commercial program for Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows. Real- Basic is another commercial, closed source development environment for Linux, Windows, and the Mac OS.


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