An important message for all BASIC programmers:

      12 Reasons Why You Are Going to Write Your Next Program in Euphoria! 

- because Euphoria is actually *simpler* than BASIC

- because Euphoria is 10 to 20 times faster than Microsoft QBasic
  (see demo\bench)

- because QBasic limits the size of your program and data to 160K bytes

- because Euphoria checks for uninitialized variables - BASIC just
  quietly sets them to 0

- because Euphoria lets you say precisely what values may be stored in
  each variable

- because Euphoria has true dynamic storage allocation - you do not
  wipe out your data when you redimension an array

- because Euphoria is more flexible than BASIC - you can declare types
  for your variables or not; you can store objects of any size into
  an array (Euphoria sequence); you can have arrays of mixed type of
  data 

- because Euphoria lets you perform operations on entire sequences

- because BASIC is an old "ad-hoc" language that carries 25 years of 
  redundant, excess baggage along with it

- because there is no effective standard for BASIC across different machines
  and there probably never will be

- because QBasic provides no built-in functions for using a mouse

- because QBasic does not support SVGA graphics