What Ever Happened to QBASIC?

Posted by Cliff on Sunday September 16, 2001 @05:00AM from the replaced-by-its-visual-bretheren dept.

idg101 asks: "I can remember the days when i was 10, programming in QBASIC and checking out all the programs on such sites as this one. There were exciting! Around age 13 i can remember talk of getting an internet interface to work with in your programs. Now, I am 19, and the story has apparently changed. Qbasic.com looks the same as it did many years ago. What happened to QBASIC and its followers?" My guess is that Microsoft has been doing it's best to replace all of the old-school BASIC interpreters with it's Visual Basic...which is all well and good unless all you wanted to do was fiddle with a 10-100 line quickie. So, reiterating idg101's question: are there still lightweight BASIC interpreters still floating around?

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Qbasic by vertical_98 · 2001-09-16 05:06 · Score: 2, Interesting

The last Qbasic I can remember was on DOS 6.22. IBM bundled REXX with DOS 7. I think it went the way of DOS. A fine program but not enough of a money-maker.

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