How many still use qb here?

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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?

You're right. I would probably use the 4.5 version if I had purchased it at the time. As it stands right now, I have doubts about the legality of downloading it. MS still hasn't officially released it, have they?

But for scientific applications, QBasic 1.1 is more than adequate for all needs (which is probably something that may surprise a lot of people). In fact, I can do in days what most FORTRAN (still the official language for physicists) programmers would take months to accomplish. There's nothing easier than going to the source, changing a function, and seeing the new results appear.