Power Basic Vs Quick Basic

[Arif Deshmukh]

Thanks for giving me info.
Bye

[Criss French]

Posted this before in another thread, but it bears repeating here.
I can't stress enough how subtly bad QB is. Judging by it's
un-usefullness, I would have guessed that MS never actually used
QB for anything themselves, it was just a product to offer. But
maybe they used it to write Win95, and that explains why it *****
so bad too
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QB 4.5

For the price of PBdos3.5, I will never touch QB again. Ever.

After years of grief programming data collection software for
my survey company, after many hours in the feild spent re-surveying
to recover randomly wiped data files over COM errors (I can't
understand how a file opened as append only can get fully erased
either) PB3.5 has rendered the same code (with only very minor
tweaks) absolutely rock solid stable.

IMHO, if it's worth coding, then PB is the cheapest part of your
job. M$ never gave a $*|^ about QB as far as I can tell. All of
the hours I put in trying to prod a vuage semblance of predictability
out of the buggy <%^p that QB compiled, make the $100 price
seem like very cheap entertainment. Hours spent having fun instead
of test coding to work around bugs.

What I like:
ALL compiler controls built into the code : nothing to remember years later.
COM port control flags that do almost everything (incl. ignore errors YEAH)
USING$
HUGE arrays
fixed strings
byte, int(16bit), int(32bit), int(64bit), including unsigned to 32bit
Extended precision for native x87 code.
ITERATE
good variable scope control
localized error handling
reliable event handling

God it just goes on and on. PB ain't totally perfect, but I've not
seen better. The years I went without (I only found it at V3.5)
are a true regret to me.

Rant over. Good luck. And no, I don't own stock.

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What can go wrong will go wrong.
Anything can go wrong.
What hasn't?!?!

[This message has been edited by Criss French (edited November 07, 2003).]

[Karl Lessmann]

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[This message has been edited by Karl Lessmann (edited November 08, 2003).]

[Davide Vecchi]

Ditto.

See also:

http://www.powerbasic.com/support/technote/basic.asp
http://www.powerbasic.com/products/pbdos/

and this forum .

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Davide Vecchi
[email protected]

[Chuck Hicks]

Originally posted by Arif Deshmukh:
Can any one tell me what are main difference between PB and QB. What are the advantages of PB over QB. Please give me detailes.
Bye

QuickBasic is dead and buried.
PBDos is still alive and kickin'.


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[Arif Deshmukh]

Can any one tell me what are main difference between PB and QB. What are the advantages of PB over QB. Please give me detailes.
Bye