Well, now. You want it to be free and focused on Windows. And, you're asking on a linux list because we believe in free here, and Windows doesn't? Is that it? Well, you might want to try cygwin, I suppose. It is a way of putting linux up on Windows, and it is accessible via a hardware speech synthesizer and a DOS screen reader. And it does come with bash, and it may even support Perl. Hmmm, there's another one--Perl. Why not just go to goole and do a search? Open http://www.google.com and put something like "free Windows programming language" in your search string and see if there's anything out there? On Sun, 10 Mar 2002, Alex Snow wrote: > Hi. > I am looking for a programming language for windows that is both free and easy to learn for a beginning programmer. Does such a language exist? > > --- -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 Chair, Accessibility SIG Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) http://www.openebook.org