> I can't remember if it also came with a debugger and a way to create stand-alone executable, or if that came later.
It didn’t, it came earlier: QBasic was (and is, it stopped being part of the default install with Win2k but is still available for current Windows OSs) a stripped down interpreter-only version of QuickBASIC, a compiled BASIC.
It didn’t, it came earlier: QBasic was (and is, it stopped being part of the default install with Win2k but is still available for current Windows OSs) a stripped down interpreter-only version of QuickBASIC, a compiled BASIC.