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

"Richard Owlett" <rowlett@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> 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 might have a look at BCX Basic at http://bcx.basicguru.com/

Mike H.