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Sunday, August 17, 2003

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If only it smelt a little less like QuickBasic and more like BBC BASIC--the one true BASIC.

∴ Keith Gaughan | 18-Aug-2003 10:04am est | http://www.talideon.com/ | #2746

You migh also love wxLua, it's quite far along already...
(http://www.luascript.thersgb.net/)

David Cuny wrote:

Better a late response than never...

Keith nailed wxBasic pretty well - the goal is to provide a QBasic-like grammar glued to the wxWindows library.

One design decision was to have wxBasic stick as closely to the C++ syntax as possible - there is a new constructor, and **~object()** destructor. This means you can read the existing documentation, and it'll probably work with little modification.

wxLua is an excellent scripting language - if you prefer Lua to BASIC, by all means use it!

To get wxBasic to work like BBC BASIC would require adding line numbers... shudder Sorry, not going to happen.

∴ David Cuny | 5-Oct-2003 2:32am est | #3025

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