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From: rogerhef@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Roger Heflin)
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Subject: Re: ap, Windows BASIC
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Date: 20 Jun 91 03:47:08 GMT
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In <4k4q47w164w@mantis.co.uk> mathew@mantis.co.uk (Giving C News a *HUG*) writes:

>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.

>>                                                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.

Yes your editor can do that with C,C++,Pascal, .... but you had to take
time to set it up to work correctly, QB does that itself.  Does your
editor also do full debugging?  QB's debugger surpasses any debugger
I have found on any Unix machine on relibility and usability.  I have
never had a QB program 'coredump'.  It is a considerably safer programming
enviroment compared to C or C++.  
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Rogerhef@Matt.ksu.ksu.edu                        Roger Heflin
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