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Re:Rocky Mountain Basic by Minor49er on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @12:17PM (#29652234)
When I was really young, I opened a few .exe files in Notepad to try to figure out how they were created. I remember at one point seeing all of the garbage character output and thought, "wow, someone wrote and understands all of this?"
Re:Rocky Mountain Basic by seryoiupfurds on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @12:55PM (#29652756)
Conversely, I didn't have much luck renaming my basic programs to .exe.
Re:Rocky Mountain Basic by deckard1 on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @01:46PM (#29653383)
this is how I switched from GW-BASIC to QuickBASIC. I found out that QB could make .exe files like a big boy compiler.

Switching to QuickBASIC was like stepping into the future, coming from GW-BASIC. No more line numbers. Actual subroutines. A quite nice IDE that separates out subroutines similar to the code browser in Smalltalk/Squeak.