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Considering the contempt some programmers have for the BASIC language -- "BASIC ruins programmers" -- it's almost a shame FB has the word "Basic" in its official name. Not only can FB handle BASIC source code, but since it is a front end to clang, it can translate C, Apple's Core Foundation, Objective-C (Cocoa), HTML, XML, SOAP, UNIX |
Considering the contempt some programmers have for the BASIC language -- "BASIC ruins programmers" -- it's almost a shame FB has the word "Basic" in its official name. Not only can FB handle BASIC source code, but since it is a front end to clang, it can translate C, Apple's Core Foundation, Objective-C (Cocoa), HTML, XML, SOAP, UNIX Shell, Open GL, etc. This makes it an excellent tool for prototyping -- especially for programmatic Objective-C when the overhead of Xcode is not needed. |
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According to Wikipedia, FutureBasic began life at the dawn of Apple's Macintosh in the mid-1980s as ZBasic, an implementation of '''BASIC''' -- the ''Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code'' -- which had been around since the language was invented by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz at Dartmouth College during 1963 and 1964. |
According to Wikipedia, FutureBasic began life at the dawn of Apple's Macintosh in the mid-1980s as ZBasic, an implementation of '''BASIC''' -- the ''Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code'' -- which had been around since the language was invented by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz at Dartmouth College during 1963 and 1964. |
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This programming language may be used to instruct a computer to perform a task.
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FutureBasic Home Page & Download
Here is where you can download your freeware copy of the FutureBasic IDE for Macintosh OS X 10.4 and newer, along with detailed installation instructions (FB requires installation of Xcode and QuickDraw headers); programming examples; and other information.
On 1 January 2008, Staz Software announced FB as freeware. Downloads and their executables are freeware, but source code and rights of distribution are reserved to the respective authors (the FBtoC team and Staz Software). The IDE is continuously being improved.
FB 5.x builds Mac OS X Carbon applications (32-bit only) and command-line tools (32- and 64-bit).
The FB 5 IDE consists of a syntax-aware editor, and a translator (FBtoC) that converts FB code into C code. The translation is then compiled with the system compiler gcc, or in the most recent versions, clang.
Here is a sample program:
include "ConsoleWindow" local fn PrintSomething( str as Str255 ) print str end fn fn PrintSomething( "Hello, World!" )
FutureBasic List
http://freegroups.net/groups/futurebasic/
The FutureBasic mailing list is a free service to the FB programming community, courtesy of associate.com. The list is available by online, and/or by email subscription to anyone interested FB programming on the Macintosh. List members include raw beginners through published commercial software authors. The FB development team and some long-time enthusiasts are knowledgeable and friendly and are very quick to respond to questions posted on the list. In addition, demonstration program code is frequently posted here.
Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FutureBASIC
Discusses the history of FutureBasic and its predecessor, ZBasic, from the early days of the Macintosh when it was a commercial product, until its morph into today's robust front end to the clang compiler. Information on this page can be outdated, to a better source of the most current information about FB can be found at the web sites above.
Why FutureBasic?
Considering the contempt some programmers have for the BASIC language -- "BASIC ruins programmers" -- it's almost a shame FB has the word "Basic" in its official name. Not only can FB handle BASIC source code, but since it is a front end to clang, it can translate C, Apple's Core Foundation, Objective-C (Cocoa), HTML, XML, SOAP, UNIX Shell, Open GL, etc. This makes it an excellent tool for prototyping -- especially for programmatic Objective-C when the overhead of Xcode is not needed.
According to Wikipedia, FutureBasic began life at the dawn of Apple's Macintosh in the mid-1980s as ZBasic, an implementation of BASIC -- the Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code -- which had been around since the language was invented by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz at Dartmouth College during 1963 and 1964.
ZBasic acquired a devoted following of developers who praised its ease of use and the tight, fast code produced by the compiler (a legendary labor involving extensive use of hand-built 68K assembly language code and the brainchild of Andrew Gariepy).
In 1992, Zedcor Inc., the company of the Gariepy brothers Andy, Mike, Peter and friends based in Tucson, Arizona presented announced their reworked compiler called FutureBASIC.
In 1995 Staz Software, led by Chris Stasny based in Diamondhead, Miss., acquired the rights to market FutureBASIC. Stasny started this business with an upgraded version, namely FBII, and with his own development, the Program Generator (PG PRO), a CASE tool.
When Apple transitioned the Mac from 68k to PowerPC, the FB editor was rewritten by Stasny and was coupled with an adaptation of the compiler by Andy Gariepy. The result of their efforts, a dramatically enhanced IDE called FB^3 (FB-cubed) was released in September 1999.
Major update releases introduced a full-featured Appearance Compliant runtime written by the late New Zealander Robert Purves renown for his brilliant programming. Once completely carbonized to run natively on the Mac OS X, the FutureBASIC Integrated Development Environment (FB IDE) was called FB4 and released in July 2004.
In August 2005, Staz Software was devastated by Hurricane Katrina just at the time Apple was transitioning from Motorola PPC microprocessors to Intel chips. FB development slowed almost to a standstill. On January 1, 2008, Staz Software announced that FB would henceforth be freeware and FB4 with FBtoC 1.0 was made available.
Since that time, an independent team of volunteer developers initially lead by Purves continued to improve FBtoC, which took code produced by the FB Editor and translated it to C for processing by gcc, and more recently the more robust clang.
On Sunday, June 3, 2012, members of the FB List Serve were notified that Robert Purves had died after a long bout with cancer. The news came as a surprise to many FB developers who were unaware of Purves' illness. While coping with cancer, he continued as an active member of the FB community, improving FB, answering questions, solving problems, and posting exquisitely terse code often salted with pithy remarks from his wonderfully dry humor. He never mentioned his health problems and never complained. A tribute to Purves can be found at the bottom of the FB Home Page
Today, a team of developers tutored at Purves' knee, continue his work keeping the Macintosh's oldest compiler viable for a new generation of coders.
Pages in category "FutureBasic"
The following 200 pages are in this category, out of 469 total.
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- A+B
- Abbreviations, automatic
- Abbreviations, easy
- Abbreviations, simple
- ABC problem
- ABC words
- Abelian sandpile model
- Abelian sandpile model/Identity
- Abundant odd numbers
- Abundant, deficient and perfect number classifications
- Ackermann function
- Additive primes
- Address of a variable
- Align columns
- Almost prime
- Alternade words
- Amicable pairs
- Anadromes
- Anagrams
- Anagrams/Deranged anagrams
- Angle difference between two bearings
- Animate a pendulum
- Animation
- Anti-primes
- Append a record to the end of a text file
- Append numbers at same position in strings
- Apply a callback to an array
- Approximate equality
- Arbitrary-precision integers (included)
- Archimedean spiral
- Arithmetic evaluation
- Arithmetic numbers
- Arithmetic-geometric mean/Calculate Pi
- Arithmetic/Integer
- Array concatenation
- Array length
- Arrays
- Ascending primes
- ASCII art diagram converter
- ASCII control characters
- Associative array/Creation
- Associative array/Iteration
- Associative array/Merging
- Atomic updates
- Attractive numbers
- Audio alarm
- Audio frequency generator
- Average loop length
- Averages/Arithmetic mean
- Averages/Median
- Averages/Mode
- Averages/Pythagorean means
B
- Babbage problem
- Bacon cipher
- Balanced brackets
- Base64 decode data
- Base64 encode data
- Bell numbers
- Benford's law
- Best shuffle
- Bifid cipher
- Binary digits
- Binary strings
- Bioinformatics/base count
- Biorhythms
- Bitmap/Bézier curves/Quadratic
- Bitmap/Midpoint circle algorithm
- Bitwise operations
- Boolean values
- Brilliant numbers
- Bulls and cows
- Bulls and cows/Player
C
- Calculating the value of e
- Calendar
- Calendar - for "REAL" programmers
- Call a foreign-language function
- Call a function
- Call a function in a shared library
- Call an object method
- Calmo numbers
- Camel case and snake case
- Cantor set
- Case-sensitivity of identifiers
- Casting out nines
- Catalan numbers
- Change e letters to i in words
- Changeable words
- Chaocipher
- Chaos game
- Character codes
- Check input device is a terminal
- Check output device is a terminal
- Check that file exists
- Chowla numbers
- Circular primes
- Cistercian numerals
- Closest-pair problem
- Code Golf: Code Golf
- Collections
- Color of a screen pixel
- Color wheel
- Colour bars/Display
- Colour pinstripe/Display
- Colour pinstripe/Printer
- Combinations
- Comma quibbling
- Commatizing numbers
- Comments
- Common list elements
- Compare a list of strings
- Compare length of two strings
- Compound data type
- Concurrent computing
- Conditional structures
- Conjugate a Latin verb
- Convert seconds to compound duration
- Conway's Game of Life
- Copy a string
- Copy stdin to stdout
- Count how many vowels and consonants occur in a string
- Count in factors
- Count in octal
- Count occurrences of a substring
- Count the coins
- Create a file
- Create a two-dimensional array at runtime
- Create an HTML table
- Create an object at a given address
- CSV data manipulation
- CSV to HTML translation
- Cullen and Woodall numbers
- Currency
- CUSIP
- Cyclops numbers
D
- Date format
- Date manipulation
- Day of the week
- Deepcopy
- Delete a file
- Department numbers
- Descending primes
- Detect division by zero
- Determine if a string has all unique characters
- Determine if a string is collapsible
- Determine if a string is numeric
- Determine sentence type
- Dice game probabilities
- Disarium numbers
- DNS query
- Doomsday rule
- Dot product
- Double Twin Primes
- Draw a clock
- Draw a cuboid
- Draw a pixel
- Draw a rotating cube
- Draw a sphere
- Duffinian numbers
E
- Emirp primes
- Empty directory
- Empty program
- Empty string
- Enumerations
- Environment variables
- Erdős-Nicolas numbers
- Ethiopian multiplication
- Euler's constant 0.5772...
- Euler's sum of powers conjecture
- Even or odd
- Events
- Exactly three adjacent 3 in lists
- Execute a system command
- Exponentiation operator
- Exponentiation order
- Extensible prime generator
- Extract file extension
F
- Factorial
- Factorial primes
- Factors of an integer
- Farey sequence
- Feigenbaum constant calculation
- Fibonacci sequence
- Fibonacci word/fractal
- File extension is in extensions list
- File input/output
- File modification time
- File size
- Filter
- Find common directory path
- Find first and last set bit of a long integer
- Find if a point is within a triangle
- Find minimum number of coins that make a given value
- Find prime n such that reversed n is also prime