🚀 go-pugleaf

I'm developing a graphical, intuitive administration program with BC7.
To be able to do it, I had to create a lot of own routines, because
BC7 and QB are almost entirely character-based.

I bought the VB for Windows and run some benchmarks on it compared
to BC7 and noticed a huge slowdown. Normal string-processing, IFs
FOR-NEXT-loops etc were about 50% slower in Windows compared to BC7 on
DOS. Apparently my customers wouldn't be pleased to notice that :-(

Now Microsoft announced the VB for DOS. I'm very curious to know how
slow this one is compared to the BC7 ? Run s loop where you do some
variable and string processing without any input or output and measure
the speed. I want to know if VB is really worth it's price.

I also want to know, what Microsoft if planning to do for the VB in
the windows environment. It lacks:

	- speed, speed and speed
	- DOS-level compiler (producing windows code, however)
	- many commands from BC7

And of cource the problems in all PC-basics:

	- too small string space limits. 64K for an array is by no means
	  enough. I kno It's because PC has those damned segments, but
	  it should not be our problem.

	- REDIM APPEND (Hisoft Basic has it) Arrays can be redimmed without
	  any loss of data.

Any comments from Microsoft ?

/robin