Phoenix Object Basic is an object-oriented RAD tool for Linux. It combines the expressive power of object-oriented languages like Python and Perl with the familiarity and perceived ease of use of Visual Basic. Phoenix allows developers with Visual Basic experience to start developing for Linux without having to face a steep learning curve: Phoenix uses the familiar visual design paradigm and has a full implementation of the BASIC programming language.
Key attributes:
Rapid Application Development for Linux
Short learning curve for VB developers
Object-oriented: use inheritance and polymorphism
Small executables, Fast execution
Cross platform
The Phoenix source code is currently not available because it contains proprietary third party components. Phoenix is free of charge and freely distributable, however, and an open source release is planned.
The original BASIC language was invented in 1963 by John Kemeny (1926–1993) and Thomas Kurtz (1928–) at Dartmouth College and implemented by a team of Dartmouth students under their direction.
BASIC was intended to address the complexity issues of older languages with a new language designed specifically for the new class of users the time-sharing systems allowed — that is, a "simpler" user who was not as interested in speed as in simply being able to use the machine.
BASIC also had the advantage that it was fairly well known to the young designers who took an interest in microcomputers at the time as a result of Kemeny and Kurtz's earlier proselytizing.
PhoenixObjectBasic is an object-oriented RAD tool for Linux.
Phoenix allows developers with Visual Basic experience to start developing for Linux without having to face a steep learning curve: Phoenix uses the familiar visual design paradigm and has a full implementation of the BASIC programming language.
Phoenix is free of charge and freely distributable, however, and an open source release is planned.
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