BASIC language for AmigaOS4.. AMOS/Blitz

[takemehomegrandma]

@ KPK

I agree. Basic is needed, preferrably one that is close to Amos in it's design. One of the biggest advantages with Amos was it's highly integrated developer's envireonment. Simple, yet powerful. Everything was there and there were no problems with compiling, linking, etc. Just press that little "play" button! :-)

Check out http://www.purebasic.com/. It's available for Windows, Linux and Amiga. The Windows version has the most features, the others are somewhat lagging behind. Browse through the online documentation found under the support page. It has some very powerful features (including the usage of Quake3 3D worlds), and yet it's quite simple. It also has a IDE.

I was thinking about checking out PowerD the other day (when I saw an announcement or something). But I think that is closer to E than Basic.

@ Rogue

Pascal is another "non-basic" but similar language with an easy syntax. Perhaps more "clean" than both Basic and Python (with it's declaration of variables and so on). But Basic rules! :-)

But what really makes the difference is the inclusion of an IDE, IMO.

[takemehomegrandma]

@ Saimo

Sure, Amos had a lot of flaws. It kind of "lived in it's own world", offering it's own solutions to things sometimes instead of using the functionality offered by the OS if I remember correctly. I remember using the OS GUI and requesters in programs was quite difficult, for instance ...

Some may also miss OO mechanisms, but I think that it would be just too much.

I agree, then it would move away from the simplicity that is it's greatest power. There are other languages that offers OO functionality. Basic should be simple and fast to work with.

[takemehomegrandma]

@ Ants

Perhaps if someone sent him a complete system with a SDK for free (no strings attached of course), then maybe he would start porting it because he feels like he owe it to someone or something!  :-P