| QBasic |
| Name: | QBasic |
| Created: | 1986 |
| By: | Microsoft |
| Home Page: | http://www.microsoft.com/ |
| Acronym: | QuickBasic |
| Language type: | block-structured |
| Extensions: | .bas |
| Tutorial: | http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Bay/5707/qbasic.html |
| Note: | Microsoft realized just how popular their BASIC interpreter was and decided to distribute a compiler so users could code programs that ran without an interpreter. QuickBasic was the solution Microsoft came up with. |