Re: Basic for MacIntosh

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From: Tonio Loewald
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 10:49

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harrym@netcom.com (Harry Myhre) writes:

>ujbeer@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Jeff Beer) writes:


>>Does anyone know of a Basic language package for MacIntosh which has the
>>same language set as the Basic that was used in the IIe?

>Not that I know of. The only Basics for the Mac that I have heard of
>are from Microsoft and Zbasic. There may be others. Microsoft's 
>QuickBasic is readily available from the mail-order outfits. The other
>Basics are harder to find.

>It's too bad that Microsoft never has released something like Visual
>Basic for Macintosh (IMO).

Visual Basic is a lot nicer than QuickBASIC (which is not saying much).
For speed it is not too bad, but SuperCard is a lot more capable (IMO).

Tonio

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