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From: mobo@sphinx.uchicago.edu (Samuel Wilson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: BASIC's Turbo vs Quick
Message-ID: <2126@sphinx.uchicago.edu>
Date: Thu, 30-Jul-87 13:34:00 EDT
Article-I.D.: sphinx.2126
Posted: Thu Jul 30 13:34:00 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 1-Aug-87 10:08:20 EDT
References: <716@pbhyc.UUCP> <582@rlgvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: mobo@sphinx.UUCP (Samuel Wilson)
Organization: U Chicago Computation Center
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In article <582@rlgvax.UUCP> bub@rlgvax.UUCP ( Mongo Mauler) writes:
>In article <716@pbhyc.UUCP>, jdf@pbhyc.UUCP (Jack Fine) writes:
>> 
>> I am thinking about writing a database and want a very customized product.
>> So BASIC seems to be the answer . . .
>
>
>	I am a very staunch supporter of the TURBO products (Pascal
>	and C) released by Borland, but in this case I would choose
>	QuickBasic over the Borland offering.  I have used QB and it
>	version supposedly adds a great deal more to aid serious
>	BASIC development.
>
>	I have not used Turbo Basic, but I would go with the opinion
>	expressed by the majority of software reviews (that I have
>	read) on these two products:  For now, QuickBasic is on top
>	of the heap.

I have used both for database development and I think TB is preferable.
First, there is Borland's "Database Toolbox" which has big chunks of 
the code already written;  second, it's cheaper; third, it seems to
be faster for writing, compiling, test runs, re-editing, etc. [n.b. I
haven't done benchmarks-- this is a subjective view acquired by using 
both extensively], and finally, Turbo Basic doesn't collide with memory
resident programs.  I ran into real problems with Quickbasic on this 
score.  I called MSoft and they said that QB probably wouldn't run "as
expected" (i.e. at all in my case) with memory resident programs (I 
was using screensave and sidekick.

So there's my 2 cents.  My third cent is: when doing a comparative 
review, try both.

Samuel Wilson         ..ihnp4!gargoyle!sphinx!mobo
                            FOTMOBO@UCHMVS1.Bitnet
University of Chicago, Division of Social Sciences