BASIC

Description: BASIC is one of the most widely known general purpose languages. It is usually an interpreted language but can be compiled. A version called QBasic (QuickBasic) was available on MS Windows for years, under DOS, but is no longer supported. You can download QBasic from this page.

History: BASIC was invented by John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz in 1964.
Current stable version of XBasic is 6.2.3; stable version of yabasic is 2.730; stable version of ScriptBasic is v1.0build30 .

Applications: BASIC is used to learn programming, to write games, and other non-system tasks.

The following 4 versions are all open-source implementations

XBasic includes a compiler, GUI-Designer, and a debugger.

XBasic language overview
XBasic language Home Page
XBasic development page on Sourceforge
XBLite (XBasic compiler for Windows)

FreeBASIC -

FreeBasic language Home Page
FreeBasic forums
FreeBasic wikipedia page

Script Basic is an extendable, embeddable, scripting language, compiled or interpreted. It is portable across Windows or *nix. Debugging is supported, as is database connection handling, CGI, regular expressions, and more.

Scriptbasic language Home Page
Sourceforge page for Script Basic

Rapid-Q Basic language Home Page

StarOffice Basic - Wikipedia page for StarOffice Basic

SmallBasic - home page for SmallBasic

BluntAxeBasic - home page for BluntAxe Basic

Official Homepages: see above
Newsgroups: none
Newsletter/magazines: none known
Related links:
Wikipedia page for BASIC
Wikipedia page for QuickBasic