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Review of FreeBasic powered by the Slant community.
Started from old QBasic, but includes OO features, and pointers, and many C-like features.
Available for Windows and Intel-based Linux, and has been ported to other platforms via gcc backend. Compiler only, though IDEs are available
SpecsUpdate
PlatformsWindows, DOS, Linux
Current stable version1.05
GZipped size11.3 Mb
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Pros
Pro Produces very fast and compact code
"Hello, world" takes about 12kb.