On 3 May 2013 09:55, <main-request@lists.alug.org.uk> wrote:

Message: 9 Date: Fri, 3 May 2013 09:55:36 +0100 From: Bev Nicolson <lumos60@gmail.com> To: ALUG <main@lists.alug.org.uk> Subject: [ALUG] BASIC and Linux Message-ID: <CAAoXXvXrtMBtjpbyNya56Hzp_SmkYu83kP4p2A9LFkAQj40ODw@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8

I'm not asking for myself by the way. Would it be possible to run BASIC and create programmes in Ubuntu? A quick Google suggests WINE would be necessary. Thoughts? (Other than 'Why would you?')

Bev.

Hi Bev, There is a Wikipedia list of BASIC dialects here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_BASIC_dialects Quite a few of which look like they are for Linux native (caveat: I haven't tried them myself). I have done C# development on Linux using Mono and confirm that this works well. It now looks like Mono is starting to support Visual Basic on Linux (http://www.mono-project.com/VisualBasic.NET_support#New_Visual_Basic_Framewo...), which I haven't tried, but based on the C# experience I would expect that it would be good. Cheers, Ewan