Hi Janina, You beat me on this one--I was going to make the same suggestion. Not only does cygwin support linux/unix calls but it will do WINDOWS specific things like dialog boxes. Jim On Sun, 10 Mar 2002, Janina Sajka wrote: > 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? > > > > --- > >