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Gambas

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.

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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History
Features
Differences from Visual Basic
Adoption
Availability
Example code
See also
References
Further reading
External links

== 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.