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Before QBASIC there was...

BASIC

BASICA

The QBASIC programming language is a modern form of old BASIC programming languages which came before it; these older BASIC's used such things as, line numbers.

10 PRINT "Hello, world!" : REM *** Old BASIC line statement

QBASIC code, however, doesn't need to use line numbers, anymore; and, this creates much simpler/clearer/cleaner code/which is also quicker to write/debug.

PRINT "Hello, world" '*** QBASIC line statement

However, now-a-days, QBASIC is a rather outdated programming language which has been superceded by...

VB/Visual BASIC

VBA/Visual BASIC for Applications

VBScript/Visual BASIC Script

VB.NET/Visual BASIC.NET

VB.NET, is the latest BASIC programming language version offering from the software company, Microsoft.

The Visual BASIC family of programming languages uses OOP/Object Oriented Programming techniques; where you can use a library of pre-built software objects; this makes coding much faster...leading to RAD/Rapid Application Development...because it means that by making full use of these re-usable software objects; then, programmers can write much less code; which in some cases can cut software development time down by half/or, more...!

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