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- From: gettys@regent.enet.dec.com (Bob Gettys)
- Subject: Re: Which is faster Qbasic or GWBasic
- Message-ID: <1992Sep2.041043.1111@engage.pko.dec.com>
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- References: <1992Sep1.144223.27874@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> <wiegand.715372264@lido16> <reichert.715377642@aloe1>
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- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 05:05:29 GMT
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- In article <reichert.715377642@aloe1>, reichert@rtsg.mot.com (Charles H. Reichert) writes...
- >wiegand@rtsg.mot.com (Robert Wiegand) writes:
- >
- >>cwatters@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Coyt D Watters) writes:
- >
- >>>That's pretty much the question. Is QBASIC (supplied with DOS 5.x) faster
- >>>than the equivalent GWBASIC program?
- >
- ----stuff deleted
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- >>>Email or Postings gladly accepted.
- >>>-Coyt
- >
- >>Someone please correct me if i'm wrong - but I believe Qbasic is compiled
- >>while GWbasic is interpreted. This would make Qbasic much faster.
- >>It also means that once you compile the programs you don't need Qbasic
- >>to run them.
- >
- >Yes, that's the "Basic" truth! QBasic will compile the GWBasic unless
- >Commodore used some different commands. QBasic will still use Line
- >Numbering. Using QBasic's editor you can do a search and replace very
- >quickly. Example, the old TI-94 Basic used clr or clear instead of cls.
- >Also use of :, ; to indicate end of line was different. I quickly converted
- >and then compiled using QBasic 4.5 without any problems.
- >
- > Chuck Reichert
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-
- Whoops - there are things getting mixed up here. GWbasic is strictly an
- interpreted basic. Qbasic as supplied with DOS5 is also an interpretated basic
- which is a stripped down version of Quick Basic 4.5 which does include a
- compiler. As to which of the interpreted basic's is faster, I don't know. But
- the Qbasic will be very easily moved into Quick Basic if you need to. GWbasic
- will need to be work over more to do the move. There is also more structured
- type language in the Qbasic which might make it easier to write.
-
- /s/ Bob Gettys
-