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Hi Alex,
While BASIC sounds like a good starting language in my opinion it is 
not.  First, it is very non-standard (no two BASIC interpreters or 
compilers are alike).  Second, file i/o in most BASICs is really rather 
painful.  As far as I know, the only BASIC widely used in WINDOWS is 
Visual BASIC which is hardly free!

     Jim Wantz
n Sun, 10 Mar 2002, Alex Snow wrote:

> I would use, and want to learn, basic, if there was a free Compiler and/or
> IDE for basic under winblows.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gregory Nowak" <gnowak1@uic.edu>
> To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Sunday, March 10, 2002 2:56 PM
> Subject: Re: free programming language
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> 
> > How about BASIC?
> > Greg
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Mar 10, 2002 at 01:25:38PM -0500, 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?
> > >
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