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fyi, Microsoft now makes their compilers available for "free". Visual
Basic might be ok for what you want. See here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/default.aspx

That said, I'd recommend using something like perl or python.

ps. IDE = integrated development environment



On 11/28/06, George Huxtable  wrote:
>
>  "FJones" 
> asked on November 26, 2006 6:23 PM
> in an unrelated thread [NavList 1752] Re: Latitudes by lunar distance.
> was: Lunars with and without altitudes
>
>
> | How did you manage with the computer 'basic' matter raised
> | sometime in the dim past?
>
> This was addressed to me, and relates to a request I had made, for a
> way to get access to some near-relation of "QuickBasic", on my PC
> using an XP opsystem. I had become used to QuickBasic, and one's
> freedom to use "naughty", non-correct tricks, such as uninhibited
> Gotos, frowned on elsewhere. This was a year or so ago, on the Nav-L
> list.
>
> Nav-L members were very kind, and led me to two alternative solutions
> to the request.
>
> One was BC7, intended for use with DOS systems, which came with some
> Awful Warnings about the damage that might ensue if it was used
> elsewhere. I didn't find out if those warnings were justified;
> probably not, though.
>
> The other was FBIde, an IDE for FreeBasic. (Dan Allen once explained
> to me what IDE is short for, but I have forgotten again since.) This I
> have implemented, and used, but not intensively or deeply. It has
> worked well, for me, in my simple applications, but no doubt has great
> depths, undiscovered by me.
>
> Complaints? Yes. I am speaking of a mid 2005 version, and things may
> be better now. The only manual I could find was in an online version,
> which could be printed out, but was a real pain to use in that form.
> That's because all cross-referencing was done by links that of course
> don't work, and aren't shown, on the downloaded printout. I like to
> have a printed manual, in user-friendly form, available, and I hate
> "on-line help", for which I can never discover how my question should
> be formulated. With QuickBasic, there was a superb manual which I
> still have and have found useful with FreeBasic, though there are
> differences. An example of a difficulty with the documentation of
> FreeBasic is the explanation of the Function ATAN2, which completely
> misses the point of what it's for. I would be prepared to pay real
> cash for a decent printed manual for FreeBasic, if one exists now.
>
> George.
>
> contact George Huxtable at george@huxtable.u-net.com
> or at +44 1865 820222 (from UK, 01865 820222)
> or at 1 Sandy Lane, Southmoor, Abingdon, Oxon OX13 5HX, UK.
>
>
> >
>

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