[Lowfer] Basic / VB Issues

[Ed Phillips]

Peter Barick wrote:
> 
> This is an addendum to the discussion about BASIC.
> 
> I went to the PowerBASIC site supplied be John and found a
> comprehensive site for BASIC programming issues. Their top compiler is
> for 32 bit pgmng. For details one should browse that site.
> 
> But for starters, they offer a sale on PowerBASIC, reduced to $99,
> includes manuals in electronic format, or $29 more for hard books.
> 
> Then there is PBVision, an add-on, for a Windows look. It's reduced to
> $20 from $99!
> 
> A bit of info on arrays I found there:
> "PowerBASIC for DOS is 99% compatible with Microsoft BASIC, including
> QBASIC, QuickBasic, Professional Development System (PDS), GW-BASIC, and
> BASICA. Added to downward compatibility are many revolutionary features
> such as Built-in Assembler, Arrays up to 16 megabytes . . ."

	Thanks. I've already looked there and about decided to buy the cheapest
version.  Also saw something there about a Basic to VBasic translater,
but haven't had a chance to read about that.

	As for array size, I want to use Basic to record as many as several
hundred thousand data points, and hate to do it by saving stuff to a
file without assigning names and dimensions.  Can be done, of course,
and I'm doing it now, but "it doesn't seem neat".

Ed