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QuickBASIC

Procedural Language

Microsoft QuickBASIC, also known as QB, is both an integrated development environment and a compiler for the BASIC programming language, developed by Microsoft. It ran mainly on DOS, and a short-lived version also appeared for the classic Mac OS. QuickBASIC is loosely based on GW-BASIC but adds user-defined types, improved programming structures and better graphics and disk support, and it supplies a compiler in addition to the interpreter. The Programming Language Database dates it to 1985 and relates it to QBasic, GW-BASIC, Visual Basic, FreeBASIC, QB64, PowerBASIC and Turbo Basic, which together show how it sat in the wider family of BASIC dialects of the period.

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First Released
1985 1
QuickBASIC
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GW-BASIC

QuickBASIC
Connections

Follows Typing Discipline

Static Typing, Concepts
Source QuickBASIC (Wikipedia)
Strong Typing, Concepts
Source QuickBASIC (Wikipedia)

Influenced By

GW-BASIC, Programming Languages
Source QuickBASIC (Wikipedia)

Licensed Under

Proprietary Software, Concepts
Source QuickBASIC (Wikipedia)

Preceded By

GW-BASIC, Programming Languages
Source QuickBASIC (Wikipedia)
Sources
1. QuickBASIC (PLDB)
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QuickBASIC is a programming language created in 1985.
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QuickBASIC (Wikipedia)
  • Follows Typing Discipline: Static Typing, Infobox: typing
    Static, strong
  • Follows Typing Discipline: Strong Typing, Infobox: typing
    Static, strong
  • Licensed Under: Proprietary Software, Infobox: license
    Proprietary
  • Influenced By: GW-BASIC, Lead
    It is loosely based on GW-BASIC
  • Preceded By: GW-BASIC, Lead
    It is loosely based on GW-BASIC
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