QBasic syntax error?

[Bill Bowden]

On Dec 22, 9:13 pm, k...@att.bizzz wrote:

On Sat, 22 Dec 2012 19:01:18 -0800 (PST), Bill Bowden

bper...@bowdenshobbycircuits.info> wrote:
Ok Jon, I added a colon at the end of the DATA statement followed by
the comment, and the problem went away. Still strange why Borland
Turbo Basic behaves differently. Jasen also had the right answer.


Why strange?  There is no standard BASIC, or I guess it's really
"there's so many to choose from

Well, I've only used 4 versions, Borland, Microsoft, HP, and
Commodore. All of them support the basic DATA statement, and I never
had trouble with comments. I have noticed that Borland runs about
twice as fast as QB. Maybe QB is an 8 bit program, and Borland is 16
bit? I think Borland Turbo Basic is now called Power Basic?

-Bill

 

[Jasen Betts]

On 2012-12-23, John Larkin <jjlarkin@highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote:

So you think an older programming language is better?

PowerBasic isn't old.

Modern Basics have all sorts of goodies. Like TRY/CATCH, PRINT USING,

yeah, I remeber seeing those features in 1988

jillions of cool intrinsic string functions, all sorts of data types,

and string functions that aren't functions, arbitrary size limits and
other warts,

great graphics built in.

I haven't touched basic for about 5 years but last time i wanted to
draw an oblique ellipse but it couldnt do that.

Basic has evolved a lot, and c has hardly evolved at all.

there's been three standards since 1980, and the developemnt to back
those up,

The best programming language around is probably Ada, but few people
are willing to invest the modest amount of discipline that it requires.

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