Precisely. It's called Quick Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. Everything about it's name is true - except for the Quick part. :wink:
The "Quick" part was 'cause it featured an IDE with a full screen editor and debugger all in one. Previous compilers had to use MSDOS EDLIN, a line by line editor, and debugging was a pain. They named it "quick" 'cause you could quickly edit, run, test and debug your program.
Quote:Previous compilers had to use MSDOS EDLIN,
And wasn't edlin just the most fun tool to work with, I think it may be the only text editor that is less user friendly than Vi. ;-)
Is/was it worse than command line Emacs (linux)?
Quote:Is/was it worse than command line Emacs (linux)?
Well, (X)emacs is my editor of choice so Im biased. However, edlin is just plain crap. Edlin stands for EDitor LINe and is command line based. As an example of how difficult it is to use to edit a single line in a file, you would need to list the file (press L), type the line number you wish to edit and then retype the line from scratch. No arrow keys or mouse movement were available.
Quote:na_th_an Wrote:Previous compilers had to use MSDOS EDLIN,
And wasn't edlin just the most fun tool to work with, I think it may be the only text editor that is less user friendly than Vi. ;-)
I see you are an Emacs-er
My boss loves vi and always he comes to the store to do something at the Solaris computers he tells us about the miracles, ease of use and wonders of vi. We just listen to him in "bypass mode", from ear to ear.
Quote:I see you are an Emacs-er
My boss loves vi and always he comes to the store to do something at the Solaris computers he tells us about the miracles, ease of use and wonders of vi. We just listen to him in "bypass mode", from ear to ear.
I have had to use vi to edit scripts on unix machines where nothing else was available, I spent ages reading the man pages just to be able to edit a couple of lines.
I find Xemacs quite easy to use, powerful and flexible. I even have something called uemacs which is a slimmed down port of emacs which runs on Solaris-Minix (and hopefully on my port too).
Quote:Well, (X)emacs is my editor of choice so Im biased. However, edlin is just plain crap. Edlin stands for EDitor LINe and is command line based. As an example of how difficult it is to use to edit a single line in a file, you would need to list the file (press L), type the line number you wish to edit and then retype the line from scratch. No arrow keys or mouse movement were available.
I meant textmode emacs, I'm not sure what Xemacs is, but I know
there's an emacs editor for the gui's too...
Anyway it EdLin sounds like when you use DOS's "COPY" to get input from a keyboard and put it in a file until you pres F6 or <ctrl> + z
Well, with a extra feature consisting in that if you pressed a combination of keys it let you jump to another line...
But yes, very close
Hence QuickBasic is "Quick".
It's MED all the way for me...except for C and QB, in which I use Dev-C++ and the standard "Quick" ( :roll: ) IDE.