Well... its for the Mac, but can do Win32 as well... I
use REALbasic.
Think of it as a Mac version of MS Visual Basic, without the MS
attachments.
There's TrueBASIC, too, by Kemeny and Kurtz, the guys who first wrote
BASIC in 1964. The company is still selling up-to-date packages that are
dual compatible... Mac/ DOS and Mac/ Win 3/95/98.
http://www.truebasic.com/
I would guess that what makes a particular language good, is how well
adapted it is to what you are trying to do. What makes a good IDE might
depend more on how big the project is.
-wittig
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