BlitzBasic - Programming language

BlitzBasic is a programming language created in 2000.

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Blitz BASIC refers to the programming language dialect that was interpreted by the first Blitz compilers, devised by New Zealand-based developer Mark Sibly. Being derived from BASIC, Blitz syntax was designed to be easy to pick up for beginners first learning to program. The languages are game-programming oriented but are often found general-purpose enough to be used for most types of application. Read more on Wikipedia...

Tags: programming language
There are at least 595 BlitzBasic repos on GitHub
Early development of BlitzBasic happened in Blitz Research
The Google BigQuery Public Dataset GitHub snapshot shows 417 users using BlitzBasic in 492 repos on GitHub
Pygments supports syntax highlighting for BlitzBasic
GitHub supports syntax highlighting for BlitzBasic
See also: (10 related languages) BASIC, Linux, Monkey, OpenGL, ASCII, Lua, Unicode, C#, PureBasic, iOS

Example from Linguist:


Local i, start, result

Local s.Sum3Obj = New Sum3Obj

For i = 1 To 100000
	s = New Sum3Obj
	result = Handle Before s
	Delete s
Next

start = MilliSecs()
For i = 1 To 1000000
	result = Sum3_(MakeSum3Obj(i, i, i))
Next
start = MilliSecs() - start
Print start

start = MilliSecs()
For i = 1 To 1000000
	result = Sum3(i, i, i)
Next
start = MilliSecs() - start
Print start

WaitKey
End


Function Sum3(a, b, c)
	Return a + b + c
End Function


Type Sum3Obj
	Field isActive
	Field a, b, c
End Type

Function MakeSum3Obj(a, b, c)
	Local s.Sum3Obj = Last Sum3Obj
	If s\isActive Then s = New Sum3Obj
	s\isActive = True
	s\a = a
	s\b = b
	s\c = c
	
	Restore label
	Read foo
	
	Return Handle(s)
End Function

.label
Data (10 + 2), 12, 14
:
Function Sum3_(a_)
	Local a.Sum3Obj = Object.Sum3Obj a_
	Local return_ =  a\a + a\b + a\c
	Insert a Before First Sum3Obj :: a\isActive = False
	Return return_
End Function


;~IDEal Editor Parameters:
;~C#Blitz3D

Example from Wikipedia:

AppTitle = "Binary Clock"
 Graphics 145,85

 secondtimer = CreateTimer(2)
 
 Repeat
         Hour = CurrentTime()[..2].ToInt()
         Minute = CurrentTime()[4..6].ToInt()
         Second = CurrentTime()[6..].ToInt()

         If Hour >= 12 Then PM = 1
         If Hour > 12 Then Hour = Hour - 12
         If Hour = 0 Then Hour = 12

         'should do this otherwise the PM dot will be
         'Left up once the clock rolls past midnight!
         Cls

         SetColor(0,255,0) 'make the text green For the PM part
         If PM  = 1 Then DrawText "PM",5,5
         'set the text colour back To white For the rest
         SetColor(255,255,255)

         For bit=0 Until 6
                 xpos=20*(6-bit)
                 binaryMask=2^bit
                 'do hours
                 If (bit<4)
                         If (hour & binaryMask)
                                 DrawText "1",xpos,5
                         Else
                                 DrawText "0",xpos,5
                         EndIf
                 EndIf

                 'do the minutes
                 If (minute & binaryMask)
                         DrawText "1", xpos,25
                 Else
                         DrawText "0", xpos,25
                 EndIf

                 'do the seconds
                 If (second & binaryMask)
                         DrawText "1",xpos,45
                 Else
                         DrawText "0",xpos,45
                 EndIf
         Next

         'make the text red For the decimal time
         SetColor(255,0,0)
         DrawText "Decimal: " + CurrentTime(),5,65
         'set the text back To white For the rest
         SetColor(255,255,255)

 	 Flip

         'will wait half a second
         WaitTimer(secondTimer)
 	 If KeyHit(KEY_ESCAPE) Then Exit
 Forever

Language features

Feature	Supported	Token
Comments	✓
Line Comments	✓
Binary Literals	✓
Integers	✓
Floats	✓
Hexadecimals	✓
Booleans	✓	True False