Subj : GWBASIC
To   : ED VANCE
From : Rob Mccart
Date : Sun Nov 16 2025 08:21:12

RM>> In my later Basic years I used APBasic (Advance Point I think) which had
  >> a lot more commands available than any other Basic I ever tried and
  >> you had the option of using line numbers or labels for GOTO statements.
  >> Plus the finished product could be compiled into an EXE program..

EV>QBASIC didn't have a Compiler as QuikBASICdid, so I never experienced doing
  >that to any code I wrote.
  >Plain Vinalla(?) code is all I could do.

That program would take all the plain DOS/Basic code, it just added
a lot of extra commands it would accept if you chose to learn them,
and gave the option of using line numbers or not..  It was built in
that once you finished and tested the program it could just be saved
as a stand alone EXE.

That made it a lot easier for me to sell software I wrote back then
without me having to learn a fancier programming language..

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