XBasic

XBasic is a variant of the with it s runtime library under LGPL license. Max Reason discontinued his support since and development lead has been appointed towards Eddie Penninkhof. Together with a few other enthousiastic programmers, XBasic is slowly being further developed and improved.

XB 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 version 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 [http://groups.yahoo.com/group/xbasic/files/downloads/xbdoc.zip 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 =

*[http://xbasic.sourceforge.net/ XBasic development page] *[http://www.xbasic.org/ Downloads, documentation, links and resources] *[http://xbasic.sourceforge.net/ Download Xbasic] *[http://xbasic.sf.net XBASIC at Sourceforge] *[http://gnetools.sourceforge.net/xbsupport/index.html Making your first GUI Tutorial] *[http://xbnotes.freehosting.net/make_exe.html Making a Standalone Executable] *[http://www.xbasic.org/wiki/index.php XBasic Wiki]