Xref: utzoo alt.religion.computers:2540 comp.windows.ms.programmer:3240 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!mp.cs.niu.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!m.cs.uiuc.edu!vela!awesley From: awesley@vela.acs.oakland.edu (WESLEY ANTHONY ) Newsgroups: alt.religion.computers,comp.windows.ms.programmer Subject: Re: ap, Windows BASIC Message-ID: <7451@vela.acs.oakland.edu> Date: 21 Jun 91 18:26:47 GMT References: <1991Jun20.034205.2661@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu> Organization: National Federation of Associations Lines: 26 rogerhef@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Roger Heflin) writes: >You yell about BASIC being bad. Have you ever used Microsoft QuickBasic? Funny this should be mentioned. I just started doing maintenance in QB 7.1. >It is structured and considerable easier to use than any other language. Chuckle. Structured? ABout subroutine nested N-deep? >The language look pretty much like any other structured language, such as >C or Pascal, the only limitation that QB has is it does not have pointers, This is great stuff! Is this going to rec.humor.funny? How do I force QBasic to flag an undeclared variable as an error. If I mistype a long variable, no error message, just a new variable. Didn't everyone figure out this was a Bad Feature (TM) in a programming language way back around FORTRAN-66 or so? >otherwise it is at least as good as C or Pascal for good coding form. Love it! Keep 'em coming, you're killing me! -- I switched from Dianetics to Diuretics! Tony Wesley/RPT Software awesley@vela.acs.oakland.edu voice: (313) 274-2080 Compu$pend: 72770,2053 data: (313) 278-9146