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- From: rgonzal@gandalf.rutgers.edu (Ralph Gonzalez)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
- Subject: Re: HOW IS QUICKBASIC FOR THE MAC?
- Message-ID: <Jul.22.15.05.42.1992.7159@gandalf.rutgers.edu>
- Date: 22 Jul 92 19:05:42 GMT
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- Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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- ccmlh@buitc.bu.edu (Mark Hayes) writes:
-
- >For what this is worth, I just received an updated version of
- >QuickBasic from Microsoft as a result of having requested that I
- >be put on an upgrade-requestors list over a year ago. The new
- >version is supposedly System 7 compatible, though it doesn't
- >let you do anything particularly "System 7 lustful".
-
- I got my name on this list, too, but despite periodical calls to
- Microsoft I haven't gotten any upgrade info.
-
- To the original poster, note that Mac QuickBASIC lacks a few of the
- PC versions features, such as data structures(!) -- I wonder if the
- update has this? On the other hand, it offers an easy approach to
- writing Mac programs without using the Toolbox directly (though you'll
- have to do some tricky and frustrating programming to get all the
- details of the Mac interface working properly). To just port a PC
- program should be pretty easy, though.
-
- -Ralph
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- Ralph Gonzalez, Computer Science, Rutgers Univ., Camden, NJ
- Phone: (609) 757-6122; Internet: rgonzal@elbereth.rutgers.edu
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