At 12:06 PM 4/6/2012, Eric Auer wrote:
>Harbour / xHarbour are free DBase Clipper (database scripting >language compiler?) clones, a bit bulky afair but portable :-) >See also their harbour-project.org web site :-) First of all Harbour and xHarbour are pretty much two completely different projects (with more or less the same basic subject though). www.harbour-project.org is only for the Harbour project, which is the most "free" in the same sense that it is proclaimed here over and over again. xHarbour is at www.xharbour.org and is leaning more and more into a paid services model, and both projects are also focusing more and more into a Windows direction as well The last DOS binaries for Harbour are from 2008, xHarbour, while still mentioning DOS as a supported OS, have only download links to Windows and Linux... And considering them "bulky" is probably also an understatement... > > In programing: MASM, QBASIC, MS C, Turbo C, Lahey Fortran, > > Scheme, Turbo Pascal, Watcom C, DJGPP > >DJGPP is a free open DOS port of GNU C/C++ and OpenWatcom C is >also pretty open. None of the Turbo things are open, although >some were free in the Borland Software Museum for a while. Now >you have Freebasic and Free Pascal (FPC) which comes with both >a Borlandish-Turboish IDE and a graphical Delphi style IDE :-) >And Freebasic has a QBASIC style mode for more compatibility. I know people hate me for saying this, but NOT considering the Turbo Compilers (including Turbo Pascal 5.5) is IMHO a big mistake. Nobody who wants to start getting into programming on (Free)DOS will get anywhere fast with a behemoth like DJGPP or OpenWatcom. Or FreePascal for that matter. And to compare FreeBASIC with QBASIC is kind of comparing apples and oranges, as the former is a (also massive) compiler (and actually targeted at compatibility with QuickBasic) while the later was a "quick and dirty" (for the "common Joe" to use) interpreter.... Ralf ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ For Developers, A Lot Can Happen In A Second. Boundary is the first to Know...and Tell You. Monitor Your Applications in Ultra-Fine Resolution. Try it FREE! http://p.sf.net/sfu/Boundary-d2dvs2 _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
