On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 7:06 PM, Gregory Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote: > Michael Torrie wrote: >> >> Maybe BASIC's of the 70s. But Not QB. QuickBasic was a pretty >> impressive compiler in its day. Completely modern, structured language. > > > I may have been thinking of GW-BASIC. There was > definitely something that was pretty much an > old-school BASIC with line numbers, GOSUBS and > all that.
GW-BASIC is what you're describing. Q-BASIC isn't the same as QuickBasic, though. Q-BASIC had subs and functions and stuff, but it was still, at its heart, BASIC. And you could DIM something with a type, but normally it was the adorning suffix that determined type: A$ is a string, A% is an integer, A! (or A) is float, A# is double. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
