-> Basic indeed is a powerful and easy to learn language. One can
-> accomplish a lot with it. Personally I used it to create various
-> programs for my business including:  A billing program
->   An inventory control program
->   A statement creation program
->   A mailing list program to print labels
Sure. I've used it for those kinds of things, and also for scientific
applications, robotic control, text processing, and a bunch of others.
Really, there is no limit to the kinds of programs that can be written.
Anything that can be written in *any* language can be written in BASIC
(and vice versa).
-> And then I purchased QB4.5 and I was thrilled that I could now
-> compile these programs and run them without first loading GWBASIC.
Don't you long for the really old days, when computers came with BASIC
built into the hardware?! No need either to compile or to load the
interpreter.
                               dow
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