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Family | BASIC |
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Designed by | Max Reason[1] |
Developers | Max Reason, Eddie Penninkhof[2] |
First appeared | late 1980s |
Stable release | 6.3.26
/ 2018 |
Preview release | 6.3.26
/ 2018 |
Platform | I386 |
OS | Windows, Linux |
License | GNU LGPL |
Filename extensions | x |
Website | xbasic |
Influenced by | |
BASIC, C (programming language) |
XBasic is a variant of the BASIC programming language that was developed in the late 1980s for the Motorola 88000 CPU and Unix by Max Reason. In the early 1990s it was ported to Windows and Linux, and since 1999 it has been available as open source software with its runtime library under the LGPL license.
It should not be confused with TI Extended BASIC, which is sometimes called XBasic or X Basic. It should also not be confused with the proprietary Xbasic language used in Alpha Software's Alpha Anywhere and Alpha Five products.
Version 6.2.3 was the last official release, released on 27 October 2002, however unofficial releases are still being maintained by a group of enthusiasts on GitHub.[3]