Comment by WalterGR Comment by WalterGR 2 months ago 2 replies Copy Link View on Hacker News > FreeBASIC is like Microsoft's QuickBASIC.Except that it doesn't emulate Microsoft's QuickBASIC, or ... ?
Copy Link banana_giraffe 2 months ago Collapse Comment - It does support "-lang qb" which is designed to specifically limit FreeBASIC to a QuickBASIC compatible dialect. Reply View | 1 reply Copy Link TonyTrapp 2 months ago Parent Collapse Comment - And more specifically, "-lang qb" is more or less how FreeBASIC started out. The more modern dialects came later, and became the default, hence the addition of "-lang qb". Reply View | 0 replies
Copy Link TonyTrapp 2 months ago Parent Collapse Comment - And more specifically, "-lang qb" is more or less how FreeBASIC started out. The more modern dialects came later, and became the default, hence the addition of "-lang qb". Reply View | 0 replies
It does support "-lang qb" which is designed to specifically limit FreeBASIC to a QuickBASIC compatible dialect.