Windows XP!!!

[relsoft]

Or BASIC.

[Dr_Davenstein]

Perhaps FreeBASIC from now on.

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

A lot use there own private language.

[thegrogen]

A lot use there own private language.

Like who?

[jgr]

When I programmed a few years back, we programmed in Business Basic and used a variety of operating systems like Unix, Microshare, Thoroughbred, and one other that I can't remember. I must say that Business Basic's file handling was much easier and better then Qbasic. We wrote custom software for a variety of Industries and Municapalities. Ex. Accounts payable, payroll, purchasing, inventory, ect. With Business Basic you had Direct, Sorted, and Indexed files (Direct and Sorted where used mostly). Direct and Sorted files had a key for each record. Ex. an inventory file, the key could be the inventory number. When you wanted to retrieve a record ...

read(1,key=inv$) inv$,name$,number.... ect

where inv$=the inventory # and "1" is the file number
you would get an error 2 if it was missing so you error trap for it and then ask to add....and so on

if you wanted to write the record back

write(1,key=inv$) inv$,name$,number...ect

the only bad thing was you had to define the file with a number of records when creating it, so you would get an error when the file got full, but you error trap that also.

ok enough with my reminising of the old days.