Basic for games only

[Pete]

Just a question: Wouldn't the use of a "smart linker" (as in Turbo C) solve the problem of the size of the executables, and therefore the speed of loading, or even execution?

It would, it has just never been a priority of the project. In QuickBasic it could also be done manually, but you have to remember, QB64 translates to C/C++ and then the code goes through a third party compiler. So my guess is if someone wanted to tackle it, that person would have to know the C/C++ syntax, not just the QB64 keywords. I recall for QuickBasic excluding error trapping and printing for most programs that didn't use those features saved a considerable amount of space back then.

Pete