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Re:Most(LY Dead) Influential Programming Languages (2020) by ghaff on Sunday December 18, 2022 @02:49PM (#34042103)
QBasic (actually QuickBASIC; QBasic being the IDE) fixed some of the more glaring deficiencies of the original BASIC and I think was pretty popular for quite some time. I tried it and didn't like it--as I recall, I found things like error handling awkward. But it was from Microsoft and stayed around for quite some time.

Although Turbo Pascal was also popular for a time, I'm not sure anything truly replaced these beginner-friendly languages until Python came along.

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Re:Most(LY Dead) Influential Programming Languages (2020) by dragonwriter on Sunday December 18, 2022 @06:27PM (#34045538)
> QBasic (actually QuickBASIC; QBasic being the IDE)

QuickBasic and QBasic both included IDEs; QBasic was the later revision (1991, vs. QuickBasic in 1985).

(Weirdly, perhaps, Microsoft released Visual Basic the same year as QuickBasic.)

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