Gambas
Sign in to saveGambas is an object-oriented dialect of the BASIC programming language, and an integrated development environment that accompanies it. Designed to run on Linux and other Unix-like computer operating systems, its name is a recursive acronym for Gambas Almost Means BASIC. Gambas is also the word for prawns in the Spanish, French, and Portuguese languages, from which the project's logos are derived.
Key facts
- Programming language.name
- Gambas
- Programming language.logo
- left|95px|Gambas Logoright|65px|Gambas 3 Logocenter|65px|Gambas 2 Logo
- Programming language.screenshot
- Gambas-3.3.4-Xfce-Fedora16.png
- Programming language.screenshot caption
- Gambas 3.3.4 running on Fedora 16 with Xfce
- Programming language.designer
- Benoît Minisini
- Programming language.latest_release_version
- 3.21.5
- Programming language.influenced_by
- Visual Basic, Java
- Programming language.operating_system
- Linux, FreeBSD; versions forMac OS X and Haiku drafted; Microsoft Windows through Cygwin and WSL
- Programming language.license
- GNU GPLv2+
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- free software
- Named after
- Crangon crangon
- Developer
- Benoît Minisini
- Designed by
- Benoît Minisini
- Official website
- gambaswiki.org/website
- Image
- Gambas-3.3.4-Xfce-Fedora16.png
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- Commons gallery
- Gambas
- Commons category
- Gambas
- software version identifier
- 3.21.1
- inception
- 1999-00-00
- programmed in
- C++
- copyright license
- GNU General Public License, version 2.0
- GUI toolkit or framework
- Qt
- source code repository URL
- gitlab.com/gambas
- influenced by
- Java
- operating system
- Haiku
- native label
- Gambas
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- History
- Features
- Differences from Visual Basic
- Adoption
- Availability
- Example code
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
Gambas is an object-oriented dialect of the BASIC programming language, and an integrated development environment that accompanies it. Designed to run on Linux and other Unix-like computer operating systems, its name is a recursive acronym for Gambas Almost Means BASIC. Gambas is also the word for prawns in the Spanish, French, and Portuguese languages, from which the project's logos are derived.
== History == Gambas was developed by the French programmer Benoît Minisini, with its first release coming in 1999. Benoît had grown up with the BASIC language, and decided to make a free software development environment that could quickly and easily make programs with user interfaces.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gambas” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.