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- From: tal691@huxley.anu.edu.au (Tonio Loewald)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
- Subject: Re: Basic for MacIntosh
- Date: 26 Jan 93 10:49:54 GMT
- Organization: Australian National University
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- harrym@netcom.com (Harry Myhre) writes:
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- >ujbeer@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Jeff Beer) writes:
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- >>Does anyone know of a Basic language package for MacIntosh which has the
- >>same language set as the Basic that was used in the IIe?
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- >Not that I know of. The only Basics for the Mac that I have heard of
- >are from Microsoft and Zbasic. There may be others. Microsoft's
- >QuickBasic is readily available from the mail-order outfits. The other
- >Basics are harder to find.
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- >It's too bad that Microsoft never has released something like Visual
- >Basic for Macintosh (IMO).
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- Visual Basic is a lot nicer than QuickBASIC (which is not saying much).
- For speed it is not too bad, but SuperCard is a lot more capable (IMO).
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- Tonio
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- Tonio Loewald | tal691@huxley.anu.edu.au
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