On Sun, 07 Mar 2004 00:41:17 +0000, Mike H wrote:
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> "Richard Owlett" <rowlett@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> news:10358cdtf90629f@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> 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/
Max Reason's original XBasic site is no longer updated; The project has
moved to SourceForge. The official XBasic home page, with various links
to SourceForge and some other sites, is www.xbasic.org.
XBasic has a GUI builder, but you don't have to use it, so your program
doesn't have to drag Windows around behind it. Since XB runs on 32-bit
protected-mode operating systems, it will use all available memory
if you allocate it. Need a 16-megabyte array? Just DIM it, assuming that
you have the memory, real or virtual. Another advantage is that XBasic
comes in Win32 and Linux flavors, so you can compile the same source code
to run in either OS.
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