You won't get the GUI stuff, but everything else should be there.
After a bit of a play with that, you might want to consider trying a more modern language. The question gets answered in about a dozen different ways each time that it's asked :-) but I suspect python might be a good one - there are books available on the subject (more so than Ruby, for example) and it has a much more reliable structure than perl. PHP can be used from the command-line, but most of the books on the subject will deal with web-based usage only, and for the older and more randomly structured PHP4 or earlier (I have it on good authority that PHP5 is "good" :-). Java I'm not too sure how to summarise, but I've never felt comfortable with it (mind you, I'm not a developer). C, C++ and C# ... I'd say that these are best avoided until you know why you have to use them :-)
There are still gazillions of other interesting languages with wonderful existences (Smalltalk, Lisp, Logo, TCL, Haskell, even Ook :-) but unless you're generally interested in computer languages because of the types of problems they can solve, I'd advise you to leave them well alone for a while :-)
-jim
On Feb 7, 2005, at 5:05 PM, Lindsay wrote:
mid-90's. Basically (not a pun), I still use the original basic language I learned (self-taught,) but add in the graphical features and a bit (5% maybe) of the newer Visual Basic language.
Would the former of those below give me some 'starting point' to 'play' with in Ubuntu with my limited expertise?
universe/bwbasic:
Description: Bywater BASIC Interpreter
The Bywater BASIC Interpreter (bwBASIC) implements a large superset of
the ANSI Standard for Minimal BASIC (X3.60-1978) and a significant
subset of the ANSI Standard for Full BASIC (X3.113-1987) in C. It also
offers shell programming facilities as an extension of BASIC. bwBASIC
seeks to be as portable as possible.
