XBasic

XBasic is a variant of the BASIC programming language that was developed in the late 1980s for the Motorola 88000 CPU and Unix. In the early 1990s it was ported to Windows and Linux. Since 1999 it is has been available as free software.

It has signed and unsigned 8-, 16- and 32-bit and signed 64-bit integers as well as 32- and 64-bit floating point values. The string datatype is only for 8 bit characters.

It is possible to generate an assembly language file. XBasic has a Windows only verson called XBlite. Development is at SourceForge.

As well as the HTML on line documentation (see links section at the end of this entry) printable Word format text is HERE

Components

Editor (writing computer code)
Compiler (creating code)
Debugger (checking for errors)
Libraries (ready made 'internal' code to call on)
GuiDesigner (creates the 'look and feel' of the program)

Example code

' Programs contain:
' 1. A PROLOG with type/function/constant declarations.
' 2. This Entry() function where execution begins.
' 3. Zero or more additional functions.
'
FUNCTION Entry ()

PRINT "Hello World"

PRINT 2+2
PRINT 44/12
PRINT 33*3

END FUNCTION

External links

Categories: BASIC dialects