Never even heard of it until now. Downloaded, looked at it, looks interesting. Will try it out, but not expecting much, especially since v1ctor's is probably much better.
Anyone know much about Franck Charlet's MBasic?
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/franck.charlet/Main.html (look under Software)
I'm slightly intrigued by the product's manual/documentation (Word format), which has some multi-Basic benchmarks near the very end. I realize benchmarks are like statistics, and are only meaningful in context. I guess I hadn't seen anyone provide benchmark stats pitting so many DOS/Win basics against each other before.
Of those tested for runtime speed (and with the benchmarks, OS, and hardware the author used) it looks like a shootout between VB6 Native Code and PDS 7 for the "King o' Basics."
Is there a good source on the web for reviews of various basics from the points of view of applicability, usability, and viability? If there isn't a good, solid (and with some depth) review/rating site, does anyone know of a good set of links pointing to individual sites/articles reviewing various basics?
I feel ridiculous asking these "whaddaya think 'bout xxxbasic?" questions here in piecemeal fashion and wasting people's time.
Hmm... Just checked it out. It is interesting to see this, because he seems to have made a decent open-source P-code interpreter. Of course, it loses to both PDS and VB6 (it was surprising to see VB6 lose to PDS though... I never realized it was that slow), but he makes some cool backwords-compatible syntax additions (DIM x(2):INTEGER for DIM x(2) as INTEGER, or ? "hi" for PRINT "hi").