On 12/21/2013 01:17 AM, Chris Angelico wrote: > GW-BASIC is what you're describing. Q-BASIC isn't the same as > QuickBasic, though. Q-BASIC had subs and functions and stuff, but it > was still, at its heart, BASIC. And you could DIM something with a > type, but normally it was the adorning suffix that determined type: A$ > is a string, A% is an integer, A! (or A) is float, A# is double.
Yes you could use suffixes if you wanted to on QuickBasic and QBasic. QBasic actually was the same language as QuickBasic, just that it was an interpreter only, not a compiler. The language itself was identical (to ver 4.5 if I recall correctly). If you want a trip down memory lane, download qb64[1] for your chosen platform and have fun. qb64 is actually a full-blown compiler that implements almost all of the QuickBasic/QBasic language with an integrated IDE that is a re-implementation of the good old DOS one that was in QBasic and QuickBasic. [1] http://qb64.net -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
