From: guymacon@deltanet.com (Guy Macon)
Subject: Re: Downloads
 
In article , 
mcmattias@compuserve.com (Michael Mattias) wrote:
>
>guymacon@deltanet.com (Guy Macon) writes: > In article 
, Frank.Masingill@concentric.ne
t wrote:
>>
>> As far as demos. etc. think of PowerBasic as Qbasic plus extra features.
>> Learn Qbasic and you will be able to master the extra features of PB
>> in an hour or two.  There are a *lot* of Qbasic demos out there.
>> The best thing about Qbasic is that it's free from microsoft.
>>
>
>Um, PowerBASIC is a heck of lot more than QBASIC *or* QuickBASIC plus "some
>extra features".
>
>If you can master those extra features in one hour, I'd like to hire you:
>to leap tall buildings in a single bound, change the course of mighty rivers
>and bend steel in your bare hands.
 
Well, yes.  "Master" was a bad choice of words.  What I was trying to get
across in my flawed way is that the extra features that PB has over QB
are easy to understand and use, as compared to such hard to learn
languages as C++.  If you really know QuickBasic, you will take to
PowerBasic like a duck takes to water.  In fact, my initial reaction
was to marvel at all of the things that are a hard struggle in QB
and very easy to do in PB.  You can do a *lot* more, but that added
power doesn't mean that PowerBasic is in any way hard to learn.
 
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