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Check out "Why Johnny Can't Code," the article that inspired BASIC-256.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)During the 1980s, C compilers spread widely, and C became an extremely popular language.
NEXTBasic: A customized Basic language, inspired by Visual Basic .NET, that targets the Sega Genesis (Mega Drive).
Now I've heard of other languages which supposedly make possible development without recourse to Java, languages like CellularBASIC (which looks a bit like QBASIC) and Hecl (which seems to be based on Tcl).
After some research on the Net, I came across this site about the CellularBASIC. It is a complete BASIC interpreter written in JAVA.
QB64 comes with a WYSIWYG IDE editor called InForm which brings it closer to everyday use as a quick and dirty language for automation for Windows.
Enter Borland Delphi, which combined Object Pascal with a VB-like visual form builder. Object Pascal was Borland's own language, with full support for inheritance. It is case-insensitive and not much harder than VB for coding, once you get used to typing begin and end a lot (loosely equivalent to curly braces in C). Unlike VB, it sensibly has different operators for assignment (:=) and comparison (=).
Alternatively, one can relive the days of the whole BASIC/Pascal rivalry with Delphi-compatible Lazarus.
RAD Basic is not the only game in town. Alternatives in varying stages of development include twinBASIC, which also aims to be backwards compatible with VB6 and VBA; and FreeBASIC, which implements much of what lurked in Microsoft QuickBASIC (and has a nifty IDE in the form of VisualFBEditor).
After some research on the Net, I came across this site about the CellularBASIC. It is a complete BASIC interpreter written in JAVA.
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