Several theories are in circulation regarding the full form of GWBASIC. According to Greg Whitten (an early Microsoft employee who developed the standards in the company's BASIC compiler line) GWBASIC stands for "Gee-Whiz Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code". One more full form is in circulation and is "Gates-Whitten Beginners All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code" (because Bill Gates and Greg Whitten were the primary developers of the language). according to other sources,GWBASIC stands for.... ''Graphics Workstation Beginers All popose Symbolic Instruction Code"
A version of BASIC developed by Microsoft.
A version of BASIC written by Microsoft. The GW stands for Gates William (Bill Gates).
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The GWBASIC comma operator is used to format the output of the PRINT command, placing the value to be printed in the next print zone rather than immediately after the previous value. Note that GWBASIC divides each line into zones of 14 spaces each. The comma operator also has other purposes, such as when filling a string with the same character. For example: 10 X$ = STRING$(10,45) 20 PRINT X$"HELLO WORLD"X$ RUN ----------HELLO WORLD---------- The comma operator is also used to separate the dimensions of a multi-dimensional array, such as the following 2x3 array: A(2,3)
These are memory locations to store a vast amount of data. Usually a limited no. of variables are handled while programming in GW Basic. Sometimes you need to bother a plenty of variables and this colud make programming tiresome. To save yourself from a lot of manual inputs, Arrays can help you.
I suggest using an array with as many elements as the longest row you need. To keep it simple, keep two copies of the array, and calculate each element of the "new" array as the sum of the corresponding element, plus the previous element, of the "old" array. Then copy the information back for the next step.
Answer: In dos you have to create the complete application, yourself in other words the complete .EXE file, that can be done in any of the many different programming languishes IE. GWBasic, QBasic, C, or ASM etc., the last is the most difficult but the result is the fastest application. Where Windows is a platform for your application, most of the things you want to do is already created in Windows, all you have to do, is to use it from within your application, not that it means less programming, you actually have to do more coding than with Dos, for instance in Dos GWBasic, if you want to read data from a comm. port you just open it as follow [code] open "comm1:" for input as #1 input #1, var close #1 [/code] But in Windows it is a long story
Difference between QBASIC and GWBASIC?
Not sure what you are trying to do. GWBasic is a programming language; Excel is a spreadsheet. If you like, just copy data from Excel to your GWBasic editing program and reformat, as needed.
George Washington Basic
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GW-BASIC stand for Gee- Wiza Buisness All Symbolic Instruction Code.
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Save the file with file name in double quotes comma A for ASCII. Example: SAVE "myfile.bas",A
just type "chikosalovakia" on gw basic .......................it will give you all instructions............it is a special code.................
GW Basic was invented by Dr James G Kemeny And Thomas E kurtz :) in Dart mouth College New Hamshair USA
The GWBASIC comma operator is used to format the output of the PRINT command, placing the value to be printed in the next print zone rather than immediately after the previous value. Note that GWBASIC divides each line into zones of 14 spaces each. The comma operator also has other purposes, such as when filling a string with the same character. For example: 10 X$ = STRING$(10,45) 20 PRINT X$"HELLO WORLD"X$ RUN ----------HELLO WORLD---------- The comma operator is also used to separate the dimensions of a multi-dimensional array, such as the following 2x3 array: A(2,3)