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Ask HN: What's an old software that you would like to have again?

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Microsoft PDS (aka Quickbasic). QB64 is an okay substitute but since it's compiled rather than interpreted it loses a lot of the magic that made BASIC special back in the day.

I think QuickBasic is a compiled language but QBasic is the interpreted one?

Re: Ask HN: What's an old software that you would like to have again?

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Microsoft PDS (aka Quickbasic). QB64 is an okay substitute but since it's compiled rather than interpreted it loses a lot of the magic that made BASIC special back in the day.

I think QuickBasic is a compiled language but QBasic is the interpreted one?

so QuickBasic (4.5, etc) give you the option to compile your source for purposes of distribution but while you are coding/testing/etc it's purely interpretive.

QB is the free to use bundled version for MS-DOS that doesn't have this feature.

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