Category:QuickBASIC: Difference between revisions
Added Language box.
m (→QBasic: added one word) |
(Added Language box.) |
||
| (2 intermediate revisions by 2 users not shown) | |||
Line 1:
{{language|QuickBASIC
|exec=compiled
|strength=
|safety=
|express=
|checking=
|gc=
|site=
}}{{language programming paradigm|Procedural}}
{{implementation|BASIC}}{{IDE}}{{Compiler}}
'''QuickBASIC''' is a [[:Category:BASIC|BASIC]] compiler/interpreter for [[DOS]] and [[OS/2]], produced by [[Microsoft]] from 1985 through 1990. An [[:Category:Integrated Development Environments|IDE]] has been included with QuickBASIC since version 2.0.
Line 4 ⟶ 14:
The final product in the QuickBASIC line was '''QuickBASIC Extended 7.1''', also called '''Microsoft BASIC Professional Development System 7.1''' or '''QBX'''. (According to [[wp:QuickBASIC|Wikipedia's QuickBASIC entry]], the QBX IDE did not run under OS/2.)
QuickBASIC was succeeded in 1991 by [[:Category:Visual Basic|Visual Basic]]. Despite being sold as part of the VB line of products, '''Visual Basic for DOS''' ('''VBDOS''') is actually a QuickBASIC compiler and can compile most (if not all) QB code unchanged. (It might help to think of VBDOS as "QuickBASIC plus [[wp:Text-based user interface#
It should be noted that while QuickBASIC is not 100% compatible with [[BASICA]] and [[:Category:GW-BASIC|GW-BASIC]] (the interpreters included with older versions of DOS), ''most'' BASICA/GW-BASIC commands work identically. (If a program is marked as working with GW-BASIC, there is a strong chance that it will work in QuickBASIC. The QuickBASIC help file includes a side-by-side comparison of incompatible features of the languages.)
| |||