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AdaLogic BASIC Alive

AdaLogic BASIC
KindProgramming language
Appeared2017
StatusAlive
CreatorRocky L. Oliver
FamilyBASIC
Also known asALB
Sourcealb-lang.org ↗

A modern BASIC dialect built in Ada 2012 with SPARK-annotated emitters — beginner-readable syntax over a strict static type system, from a lineage that survived a house fire.

Influenced by Ada
Succeeded by MALBR
Created by Rocky L. Oliver
Descendants MALBR
Predecessors AdaLog RockyBASIC

Rocky Oliver's AdaLogic BASIC — ALB (2017) — descends from RockyBASIC and AdaLog: a small, deterministic compiled BASIC with a Prolog-influenced backtracking engine, designed for embedded and native targets.\n\nIts design thesis is the site's: small is powerful — a language you can hold in your head, compiled to machine code.

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Timeline

2014Predecessor RockyBASIC final version lost in 2014 fire — older snapshot later recovered on DVD
2017Compiler rewritten in Ada 2012
2026Open-sourced under Apache 2.0

Sources

  1. alb-lang.org/
  2. github.com/rockyoliver454/AdaLogic-BASIC-ALB-Programming-Language