THINBASIC

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ThinBasic is a Basic-like language interpreter and now pseudo-compiler. ThinBasic is first of all a scripting language born to automate jobs and to give the user a complete instrument for simple programming tasks. It's a while I'm keeping an eye on ThinBasic and now I'm happy to write a brief description. Its syntax is fundamently basic-like but it's easy to notice C++ and VisualBasic for DOS influences. ThinBasic is a fully featured scripting language with which the user may take a good control over the machine, and if the features of ThinBasic aren't enought, the user may access to the whole set of Windows API. The language has the familiar structures, commands and statements of Basic so it is quite easy to start with it, although you must take a little more to understand the inline C++ structures if you are not used to. ThinBasic has also all the major controls to build forms such as buttons, textboxes, listboxes, combos, etc. ThinBasic comes with a simple editor but it does not have a form editor. Recently ThinBasic added the ThinBundle utility which generates stand-alone executables merging into one file the script and the needed DLLs. The resulting EXE has a small runtime overhead. The language is quite recent but it is very well supported and constantly improved by its authors and now it may count on a solid community of enthusiasts.

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