Re: [Freedos-devel] Instituting a vetting process for FreeDOS software

[Steve N. <uso...@bu...>]

On Wed, 28 Jan 2015, JAYDEN CHARBONNEAU wrote:

> To be clear,it was the first version of Microsoft's QUICKBASIC.It was the
> only version that supported creating EXE files.

Every version of "QuickBasic" supports that, as opposed to QBASIC.

> Quite frankly,and I've said this multiple times (My opinion will not 
> change),a good program is a good program,no matter the source.(Here's a 
> funny way of putting it).If I were to make a program that saves the 
> world,but it was made with the world's worst compiler,would that 
> disqualify the program?

There's ways and there's ways, but there's always ways.

> QBASIC may not be open source,but it's free (Like turbo C++).

Not...really.

It's "free" if you have a legitimate copy of IBM DOS 5, MS-DOS 5 or 6.x, 
or certain versions of Windows NT.

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> Back in the day (I'm not old enough to remember this,but I know this as 
> fact),everything was made in BASIC.

You "know" this, but actually, at that time a lot of stuff was actually 
done in assembler or maybe Pascal, not BASIC.  I *am* old enough to 
remember this.

> Even OPERATING SYSTEMS were basically a BASIC intrepeter.

Only, really, on Commodore computers.

-uso.