Programming Languages

A trend I see developing with some marketers, is to build software programs that will benefit their customers. If this is you, and you would like to get started but don't know where to turn, I offer these resources:

This one has versions for both MAC and Windows. And it's a pretty good version of a Standard Basic language too. Good for beginners on up to advanced programmers.

Chipmunk Basic v. 3.5.3
by Ron Nicholson
Size: 386 K Win95, Win98, WinNT, MAC 29-Jun-99
Home Page: http://www.nicholson.com/rhn/basic/
Download Windows: ftp://ftp.rahul.net/pub/rhn/w32cbas.zip
Download MAC: ftp://ftp.rahul.net/pub/rhn/chipmunk-basic-3.5.3.sit.hqx

Chipmunk Basic is an old fashioned Basic interpreter which runs on almost all Macs, and is accelerated for PowerMacs (and Windows). Supported features include AppleScript, Drag&Drop, graphics, sprites, sound, speech and OOP (object oriented programming). Runs on systems from System 6.0.7 thru MacOS 8.5, old Mac 512Ke's thru the latest Apple G3 PowerMacs and PowerBooks.

Ok, the next few are basically just Windows languages, but they are great for intermediate programmers.

Dialect Standard Edition v. 1.01
by Aristar Inc.
Size: 933 K Win95, Win98, WinNT 11-Jun-99
Home Page: http://www.aristar.com/DialectStandard.html
Download: http://www.aristar.com/Downloads/Dialect/InstallDialectStd.exe

Aristar Dialect Standard Edition is an advanced programming system for Windows NT, 95, 98 and CE that allows developers to write applications with the following features:

Unlimited size and data
Royalty-free runtime
On-line documentation
Capacity to pre-compile code for rapid execution
Integrated development environment with project management
Support for sockets, files, GUI elements, printing, etc.

Euphoria Programming Language v. 2.1
by Rapid Deployment Software
Size: 550 K Win95, Win98, WinNT 28-Apr-99
Home Page: http://www.rapideuphoria.com/
Download: http://www.rapideuphoria.com/v20.htm

Euphoria is a simple, flexible, powerful, and easy-to-learn language that outperforms all other interpreted languages. You can develop 32-bit programs for both DOS and Windows. A Linux version is being developed. The Euphoria Web site contains over 300 free source programs that you can download. Euphoria is well-suited for developing action games. Euphoria is free, although you can get some advanced features by registering.

(NB: Euphoria now also has a beta version for Linux)

Personal Visual DialogScript v. 2.16
by S.A.D.E. s.a.r.l.
Size: 739 K Win95, Win98, WinNT 23-Mar-99
Home Page: http://www.dialogscript.com/uk/files.html
Download: http://www.dialogscript.com/downloads/vdp21616.zip

This is the FREEWARE version of Visual DialogScript, a simple programming language. It can be used to create batch files that are more sophisticated than those which can be created using MS- DOS batch language. VDS batch files can display a user designed dialog box, which can be used as an interface to the batch file to control it, get information or display progress. They can also display standard Windows message boxes. You can use VDS batch files to automate regularly performed tasks, create your own simple utilities, and generally make your use of your PC more productive.

YABASIC v. 2.17
by Marc-Oliver Ihm
Size: 144 K Win95, WinNT 25-Jun-98 Home Page: http://www.uni-mainz.de/~ihm/basic.html
Download: http://www.uni-mainz.de/~ihm/download/yab217.exe

Yet Another BASIC for Unix and Windows 95/NT. In short, yabasic implements the most common (and simple) elements of the langugage plus some Grafic facilities; anyone, who has ever written basic-programs on a C64, should feel at home. Source codes available from the home page.

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