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- Subject: Re: "SHOULD I DUMP VISUAL BASIC?"
- Date: Mon, 19 Feb 1996 04:14:15 GMT
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- David Nottage <DNottage@SCOMHBR3.telecom.com.au> wrote:
-
- >>OTOH, their DOS Basic compilers were fantastic.
- >
- >_What_ DOS Basic compilers??????. If they had any, why did they give the
- >idea up??
-
- They had several versions of QuickBasic, Basic Professional 6.0, Basic PDS
- (Professional Development System) 7.x, and VB/DOS.
-
- The 6.0 Professional has the distinction of being the last DOS Basic
- released before the Great Divorce from IBM; it was able to compile
- true .DLLs, for OS/2. Had things gone differently, and NT (which was
- under development at the time) retained its original designation as
- OS/2 3, who knows where things would have gone?
-
- Btw, the professional compilers were able to spit out .ASM source
- code, as well as compiled .OBJ code.
-
- Yes, they had DOS Basic compilers, and plenty of them (they even had
- them *before* QB, but I only listed the ones with IDEs). And, they
- were good. The code they created was blindingly fast, and compact;
- you could also have a lot of fun with linker options. Oh, and you
- could either link them as standalone .EXEs, or, have them use a
- library (effectively a dynamic-link-library, sans .DLL extension), and
- with the professional versions, you could even compile and link your
- own routines into the library. (You could create your own libraries
- with any of them, and even link versions that you could load into the
- IDE for development -- shades of the .VBX to come -- but the pro versions
- let you also create custom runtime-linked libraries.
-
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