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Yes! QuickBasic 4.5 was my jam! I used to churn out apps with that left and right.

I loved QuickBasic 4.5! It could compile programs to .EXE files ;)

And from there, once you hit QuickBasic's limitations, it was a small step to Turbo Pascal or Borland C!

It’s about time MS open sourced QuickBasic or at the very least released it as abandonware.