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It's been a long time, but my impression was that QuickBASIC had an interpreter and the ability to compile. Then later on, Microsoft bundled a more limited vers
by vunderba 1y ago
It's been a long time, but my impression was that QuickBASIC had an interpreter and the ability to compile. Then later on, Microsoft bundled a more limited version called QBasic with later versions of MS DOS which lacked the compiler.
But all of them (QBasic, QuickBASIC, Microsoft PDS, and even Visual Basic for DOS which almost nobody remembers sadly) had the editor, interpretative execution, and built-in help.
- 90s_dev 1y agoI remember VB-DOS, and fondly too. It was magical. I think I used it even before VB3.
- agf 1y agoThis matches my memory. When I got my dad's old work computer with QuickBASIC on it, and I discovered the compiler, and could write programs other people could "just run", I felt like a real programmer for the first time.
- 90s_dev 1y agoYet you were even before that, the moment you made programs work at all.
- pjmlp 1y agoYes that was the case, by the time Visual Basic 5 came to be, its compiler was based on Visual C++ backend.