Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Quick Basic (Q basic)


Quick Basic (Q Basic) is a language developed by Microsoft, USA.  Quick Basic is a high level language. This language provides more powerful tools than GW-BASIC for writing, editing, running and debugging programs.  Its also provides online help when required.  This language has no doubt an edge over BASIC.  One of the important differences is that Quick Basic is faster than BASIC.  The second difference is that it is more flexible than BASIC and also provides more advanced features than BASIC.  Because of these qualities Quick Basic has gained popularity in many fields.  Quick Basic eliminates the confusing line of codes for every instruction that is compulsory in BASIC.

Features of Q Basic
1)      It provides online help whenever required.
2)      Quick Basic has a built in editor.  This editor provides different options to effectively make programs writing easy, to debug programs or to modify programs.  It also provides the facility of importing program parts.
3)      A single program can be divided into different parts, each part doing an independent task.  In fact, the set of instructions which carry out the task can be grouped together.  These are called’ function’ or ‘producers’.  Quick Basic allows these types of modules to define in a program.
4)      Most of the time in programming, different tasks is to be carried out depending on different conditions. These conditions have to be checked first of all before carrying out the action.

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