FreeBASIC 0.16 has been released. "FreeBASIC is a completely free, open-source, 32-bit BASIC compiler, with the syntax the most compatible possible with MS-QuickBASIC, that adds new features such as pointers, unsigned data types, inline-assembly and many others."
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Member since:2006-06-12
I use C too. I don't know why some people seem to be acting like "we use C but you don't because you use BASIC", as that is 100% wrong. 
I'm a C fanatic. FB's (fast) graphics lib and the runtime library was written in C, but if you looked at the source for FreeBASIC, the compiler's written entirely in itself O_O;; (A compiler written in itself that ISN'T C? Amazing.)
I *could* use C if I wanted to, but I've used it, and I made some nice lil' GBA games and such on it, but I never enjoyed it. Never have I made programs that run so well, that I had fun making as when I made them in FreeBASIC.
It's fast, it's decently optimized, allows inline ASM, use of C libs and soon C++/other language's libs, OpenSOURCE, and has the best fricken forums out there (people answer you amazingly fast). What more do you want?
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2006-06-12
What are you talking about? Pointers are unbeliably useful and amazing. . . Would not using Pointers only limit the language? No one's forcing you to use pointers