[dot] KBasic Brings BASIC to Qt World

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From: Bernd Noetscher <>
Dept: not-complex
Date: Tuesday 20/Jan/2009, @16:50

KBasic Brings BASIC to Qt World
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   KBasic [http://kbasic.com/] is a new programming language similar to
Visual Basic. It combines the best features of those tools and comes
with built-in backward support for those tools as it is 100% syntax
compatible to VB and QBasic.  It is written with Qt making it entirely
cross platform.  The Full Version Professional Edition
[http://kbasic.com/download.html] is available to download for KDE now. 
It follows the old Qt licencing of being GPL licenced for Free Software
and commercially sold for proprietary software.

     KBasic is an open source project backed by years of continual
development.  Versions are available for KDE, Windows and Mac. It allows
developers with an installed base of VB applications to start developing
for a mixed Windows, Mac OS X and Linux environment.  It is made up of a
compiler, an interpreter and an integrated development environment.  It
is about 15 MB source codes in C++ and about 1000 source code files.

     People around the world join KBasic - inspired by the idea to make
software available for everybody: a programming language that is easy to
use, and a development platform that is stable, reliable and available
at a low price.

     We communicate by different means, most of them on the Internet.
The KBasic community [http://www.kbasic.com/forum/index.php] rests on
dedicated volunteers to further improve our programming language and
development platform in a number of different ways. Whatever your
skills, there are lots of places to start contributing.

     The project is under active development and has a vibrant
community. Take a look at ways to contribute.
 [http://www.kbasic.com/doku.php?id=manuals#contribute]
     KBasic supports calling functions of C/C++ library files, enabling
you to mix C/C++ and BASIC code.  KBasic uses SQLite as an embedded
database engine, which creates database files locally on your machine
without the need of a database server.  Libraries are availalble for
data/time, i18n, RTF, web browser.

     KBasic Software is a small software company with headquarters in
Frankfurt am Main in Germany. KBasic Professional is its flagship
product, the multi-platform BASIC programming language and environment.