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I learned programming in QBasic when I was 12, wrote thousands of lines creating a Windows 3.1 style GUI complete with a help file reader that included hyperlinks. For me the limiting factor wasn't organization -- functions and subs worked well (and I loved the byref and byval parameter definitions). The real limit was speed, which drove me to learn C and was amazed that everything I wrote appeared to execute instantly compared to QBasic


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