Is there a good BASIC compiler for ubuntu?

[Alan McKinnon]

On Sunday 12 March 2006 19:28, Alexandre Franke wrote:
> On 3/12/06, CJ Kelley <debian_i386 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > I am still pretty new to programming and am starting to become
> > very proficient in the BASIC language. I dont know very much of
> > C++, other then how to get the computer to display a line of
> > text. So my question is, is there a good BASIC compiler out there
> > that will work under Ubuntu Linux?
>
> As far as I know, BASIC is not a compiled language, but rather an
> interpreted one. So I guess that it is an interpreter you are
> looking for.

Not quite. Languages are not inherently compiled or interpreted. It's 
the environment they run it that determines that.

There's no reason why BASIC can't be compiled (other than no sane 
programmer would consider doing it)

alan

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