FBSL means 'Freestyle Basic Script Language'.
Like many other modern languages, FBSL has its flavours from the inspiration of VB, QB, PHP, Pascal and C++.
FBSL was originally developed under LCC-Win32, but now is currently developed under GCC 3.3.4
FBSL is a sort of hybrid language hence the 'Freestyle'.
It was designed for the Win32 platforms: from Windows 95 SR2 up to Windows 7 (32/64 bits).
It is also compatible with, and fully functional, under Linux
Wine and under MAC OSX
Darwine
What about FBSL capabilities?
FBSL is a real powerful language and natively has all those implementations :
5 variables types : 32bits Integers, 32bits Floats, 64bits Doubles, Strings and Pointers.
More than 200 samples provided ( classes, procedures, include files, ... )
User Defined Type and Unions (UDT).
Class and OOP support. Please have a look there
Native assembly language support (Intel format)! ASM. The assembler is not the syntactical extension to FBSL, it's an environmental extension, like in any other interpreter. The case with compilers is different, but compilers are a completely different pair of shoes altogether.
Extended types like dynamic arrays, and COM objects
Several native layers : XML, GUI, COM, API, CLIPBOARD, STRING, MATHS, REGEX, DYNAMIC ARRAYS, OOP(Class), OPERATOR OVERLOADING, MMF, LZO COMPRESSION, SOCKETS, THREADS and CONSOLE.
Capability to self compile into an EXEcutable that is 100% standalone
the capability of beeing able to self decompile an EXE into an .fbs script file/buffer
3rd part STDCALL flat model DLL to make C, VB, Delphi developpers using FBSL code through their applications.
650 pages CHM help file that comes with grammar documentation with full samples, several tutorials, macro files, declare files, constants files and more!