PureBasic Forum

Hey everyone,

I'm still studying PureBasic, and I saw a link to thinBasic somewhere from this forum. I then read that thinBasic was created in PowerBasic or something, so now it made me wonder, is it possible to create a programming language in PureBasic? Would be awesome .

Of course, I will stick with PureBasic, but it's taking quite a long time to learn because in my opinion there is quite a lack of up-to-date learning resources such as tutorials etc, but never the less, I'm trying hard . If you guys could give me some tips or links to a few good tutorials for beginners out there, that would be great , thanks!

Thanks a lot everyone.

There really is no limit to what you can do with Purebasic. I would think twice about using PB to create a new version of Windows, but apart from that, anything goes! Several people have written scripting languages with Purebasic.

As for tutorials, I find simply diving into code written by other people to be the best learning tool - but perhaps that is just me! Have a look at http://www.purearea.net/pb/english/index.htm. There is also blueznl's survival guide : http://www.purebasic.fr/english/viewtopic.php?t=19081
and then there is an introductory book on Purebasic by Kale which many have bought : http://www.pb-beginners.co.uk/

Cheers.

@Kale: What are the current plans for updating to PB 4.3?

If anybody have created a programming language in PB, nobody have said anything about it I was curious many moons ago, but people have made only scripting languages (so far).

If you ended up making a language, please let the community know

Yes, Kale's book is excellent. However will need to be updated sometime after 4.30.

Is PureBasic not self compiled?

nope, but the IDE and debugger etc is written in it

see here.

Heh! I think the issue is that few (if any) would be able to make a programming language in PureBasic that is better than PureBasic,
so what would be the point in making something that is worse when you can just use PureBasic?

I had always wondered about this topic. I saw the scripting language on the development site. Isn't creating a language that would incorperate PB functionality simply a way to steal PB?

You know... essentially creating a mirror of PB?

But then I think that the user will HAVE to create their own compiler and I realize that there would be a lot more work involved.

Purebasic does not a scripting engine make!

I will be in need of a good scripting engine very soon now and will write it in PB. This is not to say that I will be 'stealing PB's functionality' since if I could use PB as my scripting engine then I would do. PB itself is written in c (the compiler that is) but can in no way be described as stealing c!

What about D-Lib on prearea.net?

http://www.purearea.net/pb/english/index.htm

Isnt that a scripting language? IE, its not truely compiled (binary 0...1s etc).

I need certain customisations that D-Lib doesn't easily offer. Beside's, I always like writing my own tools - just for the challenge!