What is Liberty Basic

Liberty BASIC is an easy to learn programming language for Windows. Liberty BASIC's focus is to uncomplicate Windows programming. You don't need to understand all the nitty gritty details of Windows to use Liberty BASIC. Use it to create custom utilities, business applications, games, programs that control equipment or what ever you want. Liberty BASIC consists of an integrated editor, compiler, and debugger. It also comes with a GUI editor called FreeForm, which is itself written in Liberty BASIC.

Liberty BASIC is offered by ShopTalk Shoptalk Systems and is sold online at LibertyBasic.com libertybasic.com . Liberty BASIC is an actively developed language which has been around for over ten years now. Currently version 4.03 v4.03 is shipping and the folks at ShopTalk Shoptalk Systems are working on a new cross platform version 5 (Win+Mac+Linux) which we anticipate will be available in the next 12 to 18 months.

Liberty Basic is a programming language of choice for many hobbiest programmers as it offers the perfect blend of power and ease of use. Features like these are what make it popular:

• Easy BASIC language - write a one line program!
• Runs on all versions of Windows
• Includes a special interactive tutorial
• Comes with tons of instructive example code
• Terrific online community is fun and helpful
• Includes a visual tool for drawing GUIs
• Multimedia features including sound graphics, and animation
• Easy to use debugging tools
• User functions and subs with scoped variables
• Supports serial communications and hardware port I/O
• Make API calls and use DLLS

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