Talk:Microsoft Small Basic

Based on QBasic or VB?
Is Small Basic really a modification of QBasic or is it a modification of the more modern Visual Basic? I don't see any source on the statement saying that it's QB based. I want to change all the QB references to VB, but if somebody has any proof that it's QB based I would be glad to hear. TheGeekHead (talk) 21:48, 28 October 2010 (UTC)

Merge Microsoft SmallBasic and Small Basic
I would have just done it without bothering with the merge templates, but I'm not sure which title would be better. --Elliskev 21:12, 21 November 2008 (UTC)


 * Both titles. They are COMPLETELY separate products, with almost nothing in common other than some distance ancestry to the BASIC language.  A merger of the two articles is utterly couterproductive, or I'd have left the Microsoft information in the SMALLBasic article in the first place.  scot (talk) 21:19, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

Note that there is a difference between the SmallBASIC article and the Small Basic article. I'm talking about the latter. --Elliskev 21:26, 21 November 2008 (UTC)


 * Ah, sorry, I missed that. I'd go with "Microsoft XXXX", with "XXXX" being replaced with whatever case and spacing Microsoft is using.  That follows the standard procedure used with many other commercial products, and minimizes potential name conflicts.  scot (talk) 21:31, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

OK. Merge done. I'm not sure if Small Basic should be a disambi page, though. For now, I made it a redirect to SmallBASIC --Elliskev 02:24, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

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Reaction to the code snippet
Really disappointed to see the totally unnecessary use of 'Goto' in the example program. Firstly there are far better ways of coding this, (e.g. use a While loop), but more importantly it compounds the widespread prejudice against any and all learning languages that trace their heritage from BASIC. As soon as 'Goto' is spied many 'serious' programmers immediately write off the language, invariably spouting Edsger Dijkstra's famous denunciation of the construct. Shame, as otherwise this a useful article. Jmhcomputing (talk) 16:00, 13 March 2024 (UTC)