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From: mathew@mantis.co.uk (Giving C News a *HUG*)
Newsgroups: alt.religion.computers,comp.windows.ms.programmer
Subject: Re: ap, Windows BASIC
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Date: 18 Jun 91 18:51:50 GMT
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F0O@psuvm.psu.edu writes:
>    Don't want to start a language war, but oh well.  Have you used
> Microsoft QuickBasic 4.0 or better?

I've used QuickBASIC [dies of shame] but I don't remember the version number.

>                                     It has some nice features I wish were
> in Pascal or other languages.  Like QB's SELECT CASE statement; much more
> powerful then Pascals.

What, you mean it allows general boolean expressions for each CASE, like
Clipper 5.0 does?  That makes it just syntactic sugar; most other languages
have the same feature available, they just call it IF...ELSEIF...ENDIF.

>                         It is a fully structured language except for the
> fact you can't have nested blocks as in Pascal.

That's like saying it's fully object-oriented except it doesn't have
inheritance...

>                                                One of the great things
> I like about the QB environment is when you press the F2 key, a window
> pops up with a list of all your procedures/functions.  Click on the one
> you want to look at and bingo.  Very nice.

My editor does that, for C, C++, Pascal, Modula-2, Clipper, or any other
language you care to tell it about.

>                                          Also, not having to define the
> lengths of your strings is nice(but has it's own bag on worms in certain
> cases).

You can implement arbitrary-size strings in C++ quite easily, and the same
goes for Modula-2. Turbo 'Pascal' has them as well.


mathew