🚀 go-pugleaf

philco@microsoft.com (Phillip Cooper) writes:
>The way our interlanguage calling capabilities are implemented, 
>each new product is designed to be compatable with whatever the
>current version of other languages are when it is released.
>
>In other words, when QB 4.5 was released, QC 2.10 was the current
>version of QuickC.  QuickC 2.5 was just a twinkle in our language
>developer's eyes. :)  Obviously, it would be a little difficult to
>ensure compatability with a product that didn't even exist!

  You've just contradicted yourself in these two paragraphs, though.
When QuickC 2.5 was designed, QuickBASIC 4.5 was the current version
of QuickBASIC, so QuickC 2.5 should have been designed to be
compatible with it.  I would construe this little tidbit as
confirmation of my view that Microsoft thinks PDS is the "current
version of QuickBASIC".  That is, QuickBASIC has been discontinued and
replaced with PDS.  If this is so, then QuickBASIC's price has jumped
*very* dramatically, and this does indeed "suck".

Yet another reason why QuickBASIC is desperately in need of upgrading...
And why we desperately need another Borland in this market.

  --  Cos (Ofer Inbar)  --  cos@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu
    double value;                /* or your money back! */
    short changed;               /* so triple your money back! */
      From cons.c in the perl source code, by Larry Wall