Re: MS BASIC, Sinclair BASIC, STOS BASIC: derivatives comparison?

From	Paul Bartlett <bartlett@panix.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.basic.misc, comp.sys.sinclair
Subject	Re: MS BASIC, Sinclair BASIC, STOS BASIC: derivatives comparison?
Date	2012-12-06 14:40 -0500
Organization	PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC
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On Thu, 6 Dec 2012, news@rtrussell.co.uk wrote (trimmed):

> I don't think it's entirely fair to call QBasic a 'stripped down'
> version of QuickBasic.  Although using basically the same source
> syntax, QuickBasic was a compiler and QBasic an interpreter, so very
> different in their intended applications.

I would have to dig out old manuals (I have both QuickBasic 4.5 and
QBasic, although I haven't used them in a long time), but as I recall
QB 4.5 allowed somewhat larger program code space, had a larger DGROUP,
and had a few more features than QBasic. However, they were/are highly
similar, and to the best of my knowledge, it would be legitimate to
call QBasic a *slightly* cut down interpreter based on the compiler. I
have one encryption / decryption program that I wrote and compiled with
QB 4.5 which I still use regularly under Win XP Pro SP3. I haven't
tried, but I think it would work under QBasic.

-- 
Paul Bartlett

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