For a particular definition of "good," sure it is. You might also want to look at the Arduino family of boards. They use a C-like language instead of BASIC and, as a result of a very wide user base, the Arduino board have quite a lot of expansion modules.
-- Rich Webb Norfolk, VA
We haven't tried them. You should also consider Coridium who make similar boards using ARM microcontrollers:
-- Chris Burrows CFB Software Armaide: ARM Development System for Pascal Programmers
He doesn't really care. He's fishing for suckers who will click his links:
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