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chad@quality.ta.ford.com (Chad Childers) writes:

>>I was wonding what the 'pros and cons' are with Microsoft Quick BASIC and
>>C++ (Borland). I need to buy a language I can use to create a flexible
>>string based data base (as well as for general programming). I can only buy
>>one and would like to know what would best suit my needs.

    I used to swear by Basic 7.1 -- It handled strings effortlessly,
    *NO* developement environment is easier to use, it compiles faster
    than C in the environment, Press F2 and a list of subroutines in
    the program comes up, you pick the one you want, so you don't
    have to scroll through code.

    But-- There is no question that C makes faster code. I had some
    numeric calculation routines that I wrote in Basic and C and the
    C version ran up to 5 times faster.

    Another problem-- Once your application gets big, you start running
    out of memory, even if you use the overlays in Basic. So, if you don't
    plan on it getting too big, and developement time is more important than
    speed, then I would recommend Basic. 

    Another plus-- Basic 7.1 has built in ISAM support that is a very fast
    database manager, which works very nice inside of Basic.

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