free programming language

[jwantz at hpcc2.hpcc.noaa.gov]

Hi Janina,
You beat me on this one--I was going to make the same suggestion.  Not 
only does cygwin support linux/unix calls but it will do WINDOWS 
specific things like dialog boxes.

    Jim
On Sun, 10 Mar 2002, Janina Sajka wrote:

> Well, now. You want it to be free and focused on Windows. And, you're 
> asking on a linux list because we believe in free here, and Windows 
> doesn't? Is that it?
> 
> Well, you might want to try cygwin, I suppose. It is a way of putting 
> linux up on Windows, and it is accessible via a hardware speech 
> synthesizer and a DOS screen reader. And it does come with bash, and it 
> may even support Perl.
> 
> Hmmm, there's another one--Perl. 
> 
> Why not just go to goole and do a search? Open http://www.google.com and 
> put something like "free Windows programming language" in your search 
> string and see if there's anything out there?
>  On Sun, 10 Mar 2002, 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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