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Microsoft QuickBASIC (often shortened, correctly, to QB; or incorrectly, to "QBasic", which is a different system) is a descendant of the BASIC programming language that was developed by the Microsoft Corporation for use with the MS-DOS operating system. It is loosely based on GW-BASIC but adds user-defined types, improved programming structures, better graphics and disk support and a compiler in addition to the interpreter. Microsoft sold QuickBASIC as a commercial development suite.
Microsoft released the first version of QuickBASIC on August 18, 1985 stored on a single 5.25" floppy disk. QuickBASIC came with a markedly different Integrated Design Environment (IDE) from the one supplied with previous versions of BASIC. Users could insert and remove lines directly via an onscreen text editor, and line numbers were no longer needed.
Microsoft's "PC BASIC Compiler" was included for compiling programs into DOS executables. The editor also had an interpreter built in which allowed the programmer to run the program being edited without leaving the editor, as of version 4.0. This was commonly used to debug a program before creating an executable file. Unfortunately there were some small, subtle differences between the interpreter and the compiler, so that sometimes a program that ran perfectly well in the interpreter would fail after compilation, or would even not compile at all.
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