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Is there a free, easy-to-learn programming language, similar to Visual Basic for the Mac?

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Is there a free, easy-to-learn programming language, similar to Visual Basic for the Mac?

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If you were already living in the Macintosh world for quite some time you might know a programming language called Hypercard (it’s more a scripting language than compiler-based). Hypercard has been abadoned but a company called Revoultion is continuing this and you can create very easy GUI-based applications for Windows, Linux and Mac OS. The compiler and IDE can be downloaded at http://www.runrev.com/ If you want to stay with Pascal there is FreePascal at http://www.freepascal.org/ based on Turbo Pascal 6. I’m not sure exactly how the GUI-support is but if it’s compatible to TP6 it should be OK. This also allows you to create applications for a couple of platforms. Another way of programming GUI-based applications is using Java. There are three main ways for this: AWT (quite obsolete), Swing (The SUN way) and SWT (the IBM way). SWT is using the native GUI-elements of the platfor