PowerBASIC - Programming language

PowerBASIC is a programming language created in 1989.

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PowerBASIC, formerly Turbo Basic, is the brand of several commercial compilers by PowerBASIC Inc. that compile a dialect of the BASIC programming language. There are both MS-DOS and Windows versions, and two kinds of the latter: Console and Windows. Read more on Wikipedia...

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Early development of PowerBASIC happened in PowerBASIC Inc
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See also: (9 related languages) Turbo-Basic XL, Turbo Basic, BASIC, QBasic, QuickBASIC, Algol, Assembly language, X86, MMX instruction set

Example from Wikipedia:

#Compile Exe ' using either PBCC6 or PBWIN10 compiler
#Dim All

Function PBMain
    Local GW As Dword
    ' start a GRAPHIC WINDOW
    Graphic Window New "graphic window", 100, 100, 200, 200 to GW
    ' show a coloured disc
    Graphic Ellipse (10, 10)-(190, 190), %rgb_Red, %rgb_SeaGreen, 0
    ' wait for a keypress
    Graphic Waitkey$
End Function

Language features

Feature	Supported	Example	Token
Comments	✓	' A comment
Line Comments	✓	' A comment	'
Semantic Indentation	X