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On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 3:16 AM, Steve Nickolas <usots...@buric.co> wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Jan 2015, JAYDEN CHARBONNEAU wrote:
>
> > To be clear,it was the first version of Microsoft's QUICKBASIC.It was the
> > only version that supported creating EXE files.
>
> Every version of "QuickBasic" supports that, as opposed to QBASIC.
>
> > Quite frankly,and I've said this multiple times (My opinion will not
> > change),a good program is a good program,no matter the source.(Here's a
> > funny way of putting it).If I were to make a program that saves the
> > world,but it was made with the world's worst compiler,would that
> > disqualify the program?
>
> There's ways and there's ways, but there's always ways.
>
> > QBASIC may not be open source,but it's free (Like turbo C++).
>
> Not...really.
>
> It's "free" if you have a legitimate copy of IBM DOS 5, MS-DOS 5 or 6.x,
> or certain versions of Windows NT.
>
> <snip>
>
> > Back in the day (I'm not old enough to remember this,but I know this as
> > fact),everything was made in BASIC.
>
> You "know" this, but actually, at that time a lot of stuff was actually
> done in assembler or maybe Pascal, not BASIC. I *am* old enough to
> remember this.
>
> > Even OPERATING SYSTEMS were basically a BASIC intrepeter.
>
> Only, really, on Commodore computers.
>
> -uso.
>
>
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