Almost but not quite qbasic.

Gosh I wrote so many programs in Quickbasic, I just hated to give them up. I looked around for a clone of Quickbasic and found Freebasic. I write a lot of my home automation routines in Freebasic now. So easy to control the parallel port compared to everything else and you do not have to have any special libraries other than the original libs to install the program. I have come up with at least on Debian a routine to install Freebasic. Tried it on Ubuntu 10.05 and Debian squeeze.

Install it.
$ sudo apt-get install libfreebasic libxext-dev libncurses5-dev libx11-dev libxpm-dev libxrandr-dev
$ wget http://iweb.dl.sourceforge.net/proje...23.0-linux.run
$ chmod +x FreeBASIC-0.23.0-linux.run
$ sudo ./FreeBASIC-0.23.0-linux.run install

Edit a test file:
$ vim helloworld.bas

Compile it.
$ fbc -lang qb helloworld.bas

Run it.
$ ./helloworld
Hello World!