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Comment by vunderba

Definitely. I've used a few of them (Commodore BASIC, Applesoft BASIC) as a kid.

I could have worded that a bit better. What i meant was that as far as I'm aware, QBASIC was the first free OS-bundled fully featured BASIC IDE which even by today’s standards still kind of holds up:

• find and replace

• split panes

• an immediate mode

• debugging

• breakpoints

• built‑in help for every basic keyword and command.

• editing any lines (no need for line number at multiples of 10 to insert and modify at a later time)

parent vunderba 2 months ago

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