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Re: Structured Programming: QB IS STRUCTURED!!!

• Posted by Jason Gade <jaygade at yahoo.com> Jan 17, 2006
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Vincent wrote:
> 
> Chris Burch wrote:
> 
> > Why? I haven't used QBASIC for 20 years.
> 
> There you go. 
> 
> I'm comfused at why Lynn would be using such old programming technology in
> 2006!
> I mean considering that there is a newer generation of Visual Basic and .NET
> tools offered by Microsoft. Qbasic has not been supported for a good decade
> I think, and is virtually dead today. In fact, the operating system it was
> designed
> to run on is also dead. We have a buggy emulation of it now (if that) which
> is only suitable for toying around, running ancient software, or developing
> batch file scripts.
> 
> If Lynn went into a chatroom with discussion about modern programming, they'd
> quickly laugh when they discover how enthusatstic Lynn is about ancient
> Qbasic!
> 
> No affense Lynn.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Vincent

Although I've never used it, I think a lot of people still use QBasic.

A lot of people still program for DOS, Win98 and earlier, and other "older"
technologies.

Just because something new is released doesn't make all the old stuff suddenly
stop working!

Plus, you can get QBasic for free. I don't think you can get Visual Basic for
free.

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"Actually, I'm sitting on my butt staring at a computer screen."
                                                  - Tom Tomorrow

j.