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- From: chad@quality.ta.ford.com (Chad Childers)
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- Subject: Re: C++ vs Quick BASIC : HELP NEEDED
- Organization: Technical Affairs, Ford Motor Company
- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 92 13:43:37 EDT
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- >I was wonding what the 'pros and cons' are with Microsoft Quick BASIC and
- >C++ (Borland). I need to buy a language I can use to create a flexible
- >string based data base (as well as for general programming). I can only buy
- >one and would like to know what would best suit my needs.
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- That's a pretty big question. I have built a specialized engineering
- database in QuickBASIC 4.0b (because 4.5 has some bugs in it that I didn't
- want to live with) so I know you can do it. QuickBASIC is a fast, flexible
- development environment - pretty much anything you can think of has been
- added in as a language extention: do loops, while statements, case statements,
- called subroutines. C++ would be more impressive on a hacker level, and
- if you need object orientation, that's the way to go... and Borland Turbo C++
- is good. Both have friendly developer interface... it really comes down to
- your personal preference. I chose QuickBASIC last time because we see the
- development time and prototyping as faster, and we have code already written
- that we want to re-use.
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- Tell me what you come up with.
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