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From: siegman@sierra.Stanford.EDU (Anthony E. Siegman)
Subject: Re: ** Is MS QBasic worth looking at? **YES**HELP!
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Date: Sun, 23 Jun 91 17:17:33 GMT

   Record one more vote supporting MS QuickBASIC.  

   If you're not primarily a computer programmer, but instead an
engineer, scientist, economist, medical researcher, educator,
whatever, who wants to write an occasional real Mac-like program or
double-clickable application, with minimum learning (and relearning)
time, and nearly full access to all the graphics capabilities and
interface wonders of the Mac, I don't believe there is any Mac
programming environment superior to MS QB.

   (HyperCard plus HyperBasic, maybe; but HyperCard's capabilities are
more limited, and when you get into it it's (IMHO) easier to learn QB
than HyperCard scripting.  And HC takes a lot more memory.)