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And strangely appropriate. I've programmed in QuickBasic, it was one of the first compiler languages available for the PC. It would compile executables, which the version of Basic normally included with Dos would not, it was strictly an interpreted language (each line is executed as it is read). QuickBasic was the successor to QBasic which was an improvement to the interpreted Basic in that it supported modular programming that allowed subroutines and functions as opposed to every line requiring a line number. Microsoft's QuickBasic eventually matured into Visual Basic and is now the Dot Net framework. Borland came out with TurboBasic which also compiled into executables, it was part of a family that included TurboC, TurboPascal, and even TurboProlog (a language for developing artificial intelligence models.) Microsoft came out with a QuickPascal but it never went beyond the 1.0 version.

So there you have it, a little lesson in programming language history that is all but totally worthless. :-)

QBASIC screenshot

You are 'programming in QBASIC'. This programming
language (of which the acronym stands for
'Quick Beginners' All-purpose Symbolic
Instruction Code'), which is so primitive that
it cannot easily be used for any purpose
involving the Internet nor even sound, was
current more than a decade ago.

You are independent, in a good way. When something
which you need cannot be found, you make it
yourself. In writing and in talking with
people, you value clarity and precision; your
friends may not realize how important that is.
When necessary, you are prepared to be a
mediator in conflicts between your friends.
You are very rational, and you think of things
in terms of logic and common sense.
Unfortunately, your emotionally unstable
friends may be put off by your devotion to
logic; they may even accuse you of pedantry and
insensitivity. Your problem is that
programming in QBASIC has been obsolete for a
long time.

What obsolete skill are you?
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