Caché Basic is an object-oriented scripting language designed for development of web-based database applications. Developers familiar with Visual Basic

Visual Basic

Visual Basic is the third-generation event-driven programming language and integrated development environment from Microsoft for its COM programming model...

 will not find it too difficult to develop applications using Caché Basic.

Caché Basic is integrated with Caché Objects and supports object, relational, and multidimensional access to data.

Caché Basic is compatible with Caché's other scripting language, Caché ObjectScript

Caché ObjectScript

Caché ObjectScript is a part of the Caché database system sold by Intersystems Corp. The language is a functional superset of the ANSI-standard M programming language. MUMPS programmers can run existing MUMPS routines under Caché with little or no change...

. Like Caché ObjectScript code, Basic code is compiled into object code, which is interpreted by a virtual machine.

The definition of the Caché Basic is based on VBScript

VBScript

VBScript is an Active Scripting language developed by Microsoft that is modeled on Visual Basic. It is designed as a “lightweight” language with a fast interpreter for use in a wide variety of Microsoft environments...

, plus language elements necessary to communicate with the database layer of Caché

Caché (software)

InterSystems Caché is a commercial object database management system from InterSystems Corporation. It provides object and SQL access to the database, as well as allowing direct manipulation of Caché’s underlying data structures. The company claims Caché is the world’s fastest object database...

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