Others will give you different advice, but if you're already familiar
with basic, then by all means, use basic.
There's a couple options.
Firstbasic (the precursor to powerbasic) is a shareware package, though
I have no idea where to download it, or what it's limitations might be,
(I did have it back in the early 90s, but never used it).
Another option is asic (it's almost basic) which produces extremely
small executables, but only produces .com files, so larger programs
aren't really possible. I think the last version of it was 2.0, so
you'd want to search for asic20.zip if I remember correctly.
Then, there's always gwbasic, which doesn't compile, but does exist for
dos in several places, so finding one shouldn't be difficult, and it is
a sanctioned download from whoever it was that made it, though I don't
know if you can find the original download site or not, but I do seem to
recall it's part of a utility package that contains other utilities as
well, so it shouldn't be difficult to find.
If you want something a bit more powerful, but not as complex as C, you
can always use turbo pascal, there are multiple versions of turbo pascal
in the museum site Borland setup before being sold to who know who, and
last time I checked, (about a year and a half ago), that site was still
active.
That site also has versions of turbo c, though I'm pretty sure it's not
the latest version of turbo c for dos, but that's not really a problem,
because there are other C compiles for dos that are free if the turbo c
doesn't meet your needs.
I used to run a bbs, and I had a programming section on there, and there
were plenty of other languages as well, such as icon, prolog, lisp,
forth, and others (probably not anything you want), so if none of these
options suit you, feel free to look around until you find something that
does, there's certainly plenty of options, despite the age of the os.
On 3/15/2024 4:44 PM, Thomas Cornelius Desi via Freedos-user wrote:
Hello,
could someone from the list give me an advice, what programming language to
learn,
if I would want to do some programming in FREEDOS?
I am an absolute »Noobie« with programming, but stumbling about some source
files,
especially BASIC, which I would work with.
My aim is to do some alterations to existing source (sort-of-text editor).
What would your advice be?
Many thanks, best regards,
Thomas
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