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- From: jas37876@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (John A. Slagel)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
- Subject: Re: C++ vs Quick BASIC : HELP NEEDED
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- Date: 9 Sep 92 20:23:17 GMT
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- chad@quality.ta.ford.com (Chad Childers) writes:
-
- >>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.
-
- I used to swear by Basic 7.1 -- It handled strings effortlessly,
- *NO* developement environment is easier to use, it compiles faster
- than C in the environment, Press F2 and a list of subroutines in
- the program comes up, you pick the one you want, so you don't
- have to scroll through code.
-
- But-- There is no question that C makes faster code. I had some
- numeric calculation routines that I wrote in Basic and C and the
- C version ran up to 5 times faster.
-
- Another problem-- Once your application gets big, you start running
- out of memory, even if you use the overlays in Basic. So, if you don't
- plan on it getting too big, and developement time is more important than
- speed, then I would recommend Basic.
-
- Another plus-- Basic 7.1 has built in ISAM support that is a very fast
- database manager, which works very nice inside of Basic.
-
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- John A. Slagel "My old man used to tell me, before he left this
- j-slagel1@uiuc.edu shitty world, never chase buses or women- you
- always get left behind." -The Marlboro Man
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