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Z!re Wrote:Ok. so we have what.. one person who still uses QB?

I use PDS 7.1 and FB. If there is something I want to do, I test it in QB if I can and use FB to make the "official" version.

A winner is you!
You win the "Revive a stupid old topic" contest..
Your award? NOTHING!

Yeah, tell him, Z!re.
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yes, i use quickbasic 4.5 - i tend to program a lot of DOS networking applications. in the middle of an IRC client right now.

i know freebasic's compiled programs are much faster, but unfortunately i can't use CALL INTERRUPT in fb

besides, qb compiles 16-bit code only... meaning i could even use my programs on an 8088 if i wanted to

I still use QB. I haven't found anything I need to do that QB can't do.

My thought on the subject is that a very few professional programmers use QB for their programs, a few more do use it for various personal reasons, and a whole bunch of us amateur programmers use it more.

Qbasic is so fun and simple! It's the best language in the--ERROR! Out of string space.

Radical Raccoon, that was funny. It should teach you to be succinct and direct in what you have to express, employing the least numer of words to post your thoughts, at the same time trying to be clear and brief, as this short burst of words tries to be. Ha!, I didn't run out of string space, ha, ha.

I still use QBasic 1.1, and I wouldn't trade it for anything. An interpreter gives you the fastest program development time, no doubt about it. When it's done, compile it with QB or FreeBasic and you´re set!

torstum:

Using the 4.5 version, which Microsoft called "the compiler", every time you press Enter, the line you were on is compiled. When you give your program, or any part of it, a trial run by pressing, say F5 or Shift+F5, is done lightning fast. Me, I do a lot of testing, as I program (admittedly, I'm just an amateur at it), so, I would have to say that, for me, QuickBASIC 4.5, "the compiler" is much faster than QuickBASIC 1.1, "the interpreter". Comments?

Hey, I don't use either one anymore, but a while back, I did some testing and found that QBasic1.1 is faster at a couple of things. Code compiled with QuickBasic 4.5 is faster at almost about everything though.