Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com Newsgroups: sci.physics Subject: Re: The Case For Quick Basic In The 21st Century. Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2015 00:30:47 -0000 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 17 Sender: Jim Pennino Message-ID: References: <55f13240-7da7-4ed5-9c13-b405b3eed549@googlegroups.com> Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="db4120ef82bbc153014637d4cd15a795"; logging-data="6528"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/w6dwALUhnZ6LO9CoRLSpZ" User-Agent: tin/2.2.1-20140504 ("Tober an Righ") (UNIX) (SunOS/5.10 (i86pc)) Cancel-Lock: sha1:pWH5W6CQ/9ZfnCh3A4BRKLi5bt8= Xref: csiph.com sci.physics:534308 emptypost@hotmail.com wrote: > Here's some more information: > > MS QBasic has some serious numerical issues. > > MS QuickBasic is much better and very very good. > > PowerBasic is related to Turbo Pascal and to Turbo C. In other words, PowerBasic is not just some programming language that someone wrote with the Unix C compiler. And PowerBasic is current for a 32-bit console mode on Windows. > > VisualBasic has a console mode the last I heard. I think they stepped up to match Delphi's console mode. Of course this is console mode to make 32-bit Windows applications not 16-bit DOS applications > . Or in other words, updated to work with current versions of Windows instead of requiring an OS made obsolet 20 years ago. -- Jim Pennino