From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [140.90.74.62] (helo=babel.hpcc.noaa.gov) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16kCn1-0001iw-00 for ; Sun, 10 Mar 2002 18:31:43 -0500 Received: from localhost (jwantz@localhost) by babel.hpcc.noaa.gov (8.11.6/8.11.2) with ESMTP id g2ANVj212954 for ; Sun, 10 Mar 2002 18:31:45 -0500 Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 18:31:45 -0500 (EST) From: To: Subject: Re: free programming language In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.8 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Hi Janina, You beat me on this one--I was going to make the same suggestion. Not only does cygwin support linux/unix calls but it will do WINDOWS specific things like dialog boxes. Jim On Sun, 10 Mar 2002, Janina Sajka wrote: > Well, now. You want it to be free and focused on Windows. And, you're > asking on a linux list because we believe in free here, and Windows > doesn't? Is that it? > > Well, you might want to try cygwin, I suppose. It is a way of putting > linux up on Windows, and it is accessible via a hardware speech > synthesizer and a DOS screen reader. And it does come with bash, and it > may even support Perl. > > Hmmm, there's another one--Perl. > > Why not just go to goole and do a search? Open http://www.google.com and > put something like "free Windows programming language" in your search > string and see if there's anything out there? > On Sun, 10 Mar 2002, Alex > Snow wrote: > > > Hi. > > I am looking for a programming language for windows that is both free and easy to learn for a beginning programmer. Does such a language exist? > > > > --- > >