Announce: Alpha release of BDB-BASIC

This is a new Open Sourced BASIC interpreter, 
using the Berkeley DB, focused on: 
 
 1. Simple to program (for non-programmers)
 2. Powerful database statements
 3. UNIX shell friendly
 4. Business (SOHO) feature focused
 5. "Function" over "speed"
 6. *NOT* another VB

This interpreter was initially inspired by 
MICOS BASIC and borrows a few ideas from 
the Ada95 language.

Some of the language features include:

 - Support for fixed and varying length strings
 - SHORT/DIM and LONG data types
 - Limited RECORD support
 - Strongly typed enumerated data types
 - Indexed Databases, Tables, Sequences, and Cursors
 - Any number of secondary indexes (at this time
   all indexes must be unique)
 - Sequential files
 - C language bitwise and shift operators

The Wiki URL for project & language information 
is available here: 

  http://bdbbasic.wiki.sourceforge.net

There is an alpha file release available, but it
will likely only succesfully build on cygwin or 
Linux (on Intel) at this time. It currently
lacks autoconf/automake support and will have
alignment issues on alignment fussy platforms 
(like HP, Sun or the old Dec Alpha). 

The current file release includes nearly full 
database functionality, simple terminal (text) I/O.

See the file README for instructions. File TODO
outlines some of the major items that are not yet
supported.

The next planned release will include curses (ncurses)
support.

Warren.

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