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Re: "SHOULD I DUMP VISUAL BASIC?"

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From: Christopher Fynn
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 1996 08:28
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In article <ZKkCx0JfF6xG089yn@oslonett.no>
           mobergru@oslonett.no "Rune Moberg" writes:
...
> VB is BASIC with a few added keywords and the possibility to use VBXs and
> DLLs. Performancewise it's still the BASIC we've all learned to love/hate.
> (insert rumours of the old QuickBasic being a true compiler here)
...

I don't know about Quick Basic - but Microsoft's Professional Basic
wasn't bad - if they could make a VB compiler up to that kind of
standard they might have something. 

- Chris

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Christopher J Fynn <cfynn@sahaja.demon.co.uk>
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From: Christopher Fynn <cfynn@sahaja.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: "SHOULD I DUMP VISUAL BASIC?"
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 96 08:28:14 GMT
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