Hi, I'm interested in programming, mostly for myself, but am willing to share with any other DOS users out there. I like proceedural languages, where you write out all the steps that a computer must take to do things and I naturally prefer the cli and tui interfaces with commands, hotkeys and easy-to-use menus. I don't like object-oriented languages, particularly graphical ones as I like a more straight forward approach both as a user and as a programmer. I've just started learning batch programming, since I was told this would be an easy way for me to learn the basics. I'm really excited about the many ways in which I can customise my machine and can't wait to learn how to use this powerful language to do all sorts of things. I had planned on learning QuickBASIC, either during or after the batch programming, but today, someone recommended that I should learn FreeBASIC for DOS. Has anyone worked with this language? If so, what are the main differences between it and QB and what are the benefits of using it? Does it have it's own built-in compiler and if so, how accessible is it? If not, then can you recommend a compiler for it that will work with a screen reader like VocalEyes? Is it anything like Visual BASIC? Wikipedia has the Hello World program written in BASIC, QuickBASIC and Visual BASIC and the latter totally confused me. I'd much rather something similar to QB. Also, has anyone here worked with DBASE and Clipper? I'm considering learning that as well. It might be really early to ask this, but can anyone give me some general tips on making my programs accessible? I know that I have to write to the bios and not to the screen but am not sure if this will be an issue with the languages that I'll be using. Finally, can I create a tsr with said languages?
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