Hmm, you need to work on your arguments more.

NEWK1234 :I've never been able to compile anything on Linux in FreeBASIC
mennonite :that's because you dont have the gcc compiler installed.

>>Not true, you don't need gcc installed in linux to use freebasic.

mennonite :freebasic isnt REALLY a compiler
mennonite :it's a translator that uses the gcc compiler.

>>Not true, it is a compiler, it compiles to assembly language, and doesn't use the gcc compiler, only a couple of gcc programs (which are included with freebasic). Once it has created an assembly language listing, it passes that to AS, the gnu assembler to make an object file, then LD to link that into an actual binary.

mennonite :it converts basic to c. that's why anything that isn't properly implemented in actual basic is patched using bad c code.

>>Not true, it doesn't convert BASIC to C.

mennonite :that's why freebasic has become more a c language than a basic language, because it started as pure c and started to slowly gain basic functions.

>>Not true, it didn't start as pure C.

mennonite :you can write a program ALL in c and compile it in freebasic. which is fine, but it results in a crappy pseudo language.

>>Not true, some trivial lines of code may compile, by removing the semi-colon with the crt header, but try even the minimal program:

int main(void)
{
printf("Hello World\n");
return 0;
}

This will not work.

mennonite :sure it's available. it's available anywhere gcc is :)

>>Not true, its only available on 3 of the systems that gcc is, DOS, windows, and x86 Linux. gcc is available for many more systems.

Occasionally you have a reasonable argument, but I have trouble finding them through all the garbage you talk.