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Just BASIC 1.0 Beta 2 Released
Xampper writes "Just BASIC beta candidate 2 has just been released, and can be found at the JB website. The programming language is based on the popular Liberty BASIC language, and is a slightly watered down, but free, version. Standalone executables can be made, and the language is easy to grasp, especially for beginners." (Note, this is a Windows-specific language.)
I'd say the exact same things about .NET using SharpDevelop... except it's not *like* Visual Basic, it *is* Visual Basic. Not sure about the remote debugging across platforms though...
.NET SDK + SharpDevelop or JDK+NetBeans (or Eclipse) I'm not sure why I should even bother downloading this?
Between the 100% free(beer)ness of
(I looked at the prices for RealBasic - yikes! I'll deal with the sucky bits for that price -- of course, considerably cheaper than VS.NET, but I'm talking personal use here...)
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Seriously. I learned Basic when I was a kid, but if I could be a kid again, I would have learned Python instead (if it had been invented then). the limitations of Basic (no pointers, etc), give it serious problems with anything but low end programs. It certainly has no place in modern commercial development. Visual Basic programmers might disagree, but it's my experience that you're all brutally retarded anyway.
Basic might be good for beginning programmers to get a brief overview of how to code, but before long I would expect them to move onto a better, more capable language before it gives them bad habbits and slows them down. C is a complex language, but Python is exactly right for learners - it's complicated and hugely capable if you want it to be, but is quite capable of small projects and is forgiving for learners.
* Python - A modern, neet-o general purpose language.
* Psyco - Runtime compiler.
* Py2Exe - Converts Python scripts to Windows executables.
* Pythonwin - Windows extensions (and an excellent code editor).
(I want to recommend learning assembler for beginners, since you'll understand exactly what's going on, but almost nobody cares about it these days.. sigh..)