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The GNU Business Basic

Current Version: 0.3.0 (21 June 2000)

The Production Basic project was started in March, 1999 to provide a commercial quality Business Basic Interpreter and Run-time system to developers and end users who are familiar with the original Basic Four Business Basic (1970s), and more recent derivatives.

Production Basic is available at no charge under the GNU Public License -- for any and all uses - personal and business.

We are also soliciting developers who would like to assist us in the completion/improvement of the product.
 

Version 0.3.0 Released 21 June 2000
After 5 months of work, I think version 0.3.0 is ready for public consumption. This release is actually a fairly major update. I feel that it is the most reliable and feature rich release to date. It cleans up many of the major and minor issues in the last release, as well as adding garbage collection, user-defined functions, arrays, CALLs that work right, nearly complete support for TEXT and INDEXED files and extremely improved execution time. Many core components of the code have been completely rewritten from the ground up to allow for these improvements.

Also, for the first time, a reference manual is included in the distributions.

Hop over to our SourceForge download page to grab the files. We use a garbage-collection library, which is required for compiling. Also, in order to compile or run the program, v4.0+ of the readline library is required.

Take a look at the ChangeLog for a day-by-day breakdown of the improvements.
Features and Todo Pages Updated 29 January 2000
I've also updated the todo page with the list of items remaining to be implemented or improved upon that is included in the source distribution

I've updated the features page with a list of features currently implemented and reasonably stable in Production BASIC.

Go take a look, now you'll know what the thing can do!
New Motto 29 January 2000
Changed the project's motto from 'The New Business Basic' to 'The GNU Business Basic'

Stanton Fields sent in that suggestion, and I felt that it better represented our goals, and that it was the humorous use of the GNU name required by any Open-Source project these days :-)
Open For Business 27 January 2000
The Production BASIC Web Site is now active, check back periodically for news about the project.

Grab the latest code off our project site on SourceForge and go to work!

Feel free to send me any ideas you might have about Production BASIC.

Production BASIC is copyrighted by Lee Smith and distributed under the GNU GPL software license
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