Gambas
 Gambas is a
free development environment based on a Basic interpreter with object
extensions.
It is inspired by Visual Basic and Java. Although it
has some similarities with Visual Basic, Gambas is
not a clone.
With Gambas, you can design your application's Graphical User
Interface with QT or GTK+, access MySQL,
PostgreSQL,
Firebird, ODBC and
SQLite databases, pilot KDE
applications with DCOP, translate your
program into any language, code network applications easily, create 3D
OpenGL applications, develop CGI web applications, and much more.
Gambas has a component architecture that allows users to
extend the language. Anyone can write components as shared libraries
that dynamically add new native classes to the interpreter.
Gambas consists of:
- A compiler.
- Fast executable
- Relies on the interpreter for optimization
- Manages and compiles strong translations using the GNU
gettext tools
- An interpreter
- Provides all of the native features of Basic
- Loads classes on demand
- Linking between classes is done entirely at rntime
- An archiver
- Creates a Gambas executable from a Gambas project
directory
- A scripter
- A small Gambas executable that allows you to dump Gambas
code into a text file
- A development environment
- Many extension components
Characteristics of the Gambas Language
- Approximately 250 keywords and native functions to manage
almost everything: arithmetic, strings, input-outputs, files, time...
- Full error management
- Full process control, with pseudo-terminal management
- Full support for watching input-output file descriptors
- Event loop support with timers
- Native UTF-8 string support
- Full internationalization and translation support
- Ability to call external functions in system shared
libraries
- Object oriented
- Objects and classes
- Properties, methods, constants and events
- Public and private symbols
- Polymorphism, i.e. virtual method dispatching
- Single inheritance
- Constructors and destructors
- Array accessors, enumerators, sortable objects
Last Updated Saturday, April 26 2008 @ 01:45 PM EDT
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