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TIL! I had used qbasic back in school, but I somehow always assumed that these basics were interpreters.
by PeterisP 3y ago
TIL! I had used qbasic back in school, but I somehow always assumed that these basics were interpreters.
- rpeden 3y agoQBasic was a slightly cut down version of Quickbasic that didn't include the compiler, so your assumption was correct in that case. QBasic was bundled with DOS but you had to buy Quickbasic.
- hyperman1 3y agoI always assumed, because they where so similar, that they both were compilers, generating executable code in memory. qbasic just had the option to write a standalone .exe removed. I just saw the quickbasic compiler output, though, no idea if this guess is true. Now I wonder if a compiled executable was faster than an in-memory application.