Re: Looking for "free"/"inexpensive" 32-bit BASIC compiler

On Tue, 17 Feb 2004 17:22:01 -0600, Richard Owlett
<rowlett@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>Preamble:
>My essential definition of "free" is as in "free speech".
>The GNU definition of "free" as in "free speech" would also be nice.
>
>Essential requirements:
>  A. a "sequential" as opposed to "event driven" model
>     I grew up under FORTRAN 7? and Dartmouth/Lawrence Livermore BASIC.
>     I think sequentially. VB's event driven ???? drives me up wall ;)
>  B. My possible application is inherently "batch" mode.
>     Input data set of 4000 to 40000+ data points
>     Output data set from 5000-????? data points
>  C. *MUST* be intrinsically 32 bit
>
>In searching the WEB I come upon XBASIC.
>Is it alive and well ;?
>
>http://www.maxreason.com/software/xbasic/xbasic05.gif
>implies availability of graph plotting function.
>Sample code snippet is for plotting an analytical function.
>
>Is there provision for plotting experimental data sets?
>
>Is there any approximation to 3D plotting?
>
>I get the impression that XBASIC is "sequential" as opposed to 
>VisualBasic which is explicitly event driven?
>My possible application is intrinsically "batch processing".
>
>I'm interested in DSP "type" applications.
>There are specialized languages/processors available.
>*BUT* I'm interested in some prototyping work for which a variant of 
>BASIC would be inherently suitable.
>
>Thank you for any comments and pointers.

You could look at BCET, and see if it will do what you need.  Please
report any bugs, so that I can fix them.  Currently, it only does
windows console programs.

Second URL in the sig.


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