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Smalltalk is powerful and the code is clean and easy to read, which is why I prefer it to Java.
One important point I would like to explicitly emphasise here is that this is not about the technical capabilities of various programming languages, but solely about code quality. To avoid ...

Yeah Java is very good for me, used quite a lot for ray-tracing it is very cool, so Haskell and Erlang is worse language for me and I never understood that.
If you like Java for some reason, that's okay, but I still see a contradiction here. Java has a very similar syntax to C/C++, the appearance ...

For the use I give it, I put aside many languages that are supposed to be superior a long time ago. Currently PHP, JS, C/C++ and some Python, but I have to admit that I don't like them, they don't make me feel as comfortable as with PureBasic. Every time I have shown it to friends and students who ...

PowerB has habitually been the best advertisement for PureB that you could ask for.

The pricing was also way over the top. However, I also had the experience that even "Uncle Bob's" wife Vivian was infected by his prepotent behaviour. At the time I noticed that one of the products I had ...

I have heard some in the PowerB community say PureB isn't BASIC. That always made me scratch my head because in spite of the name, PowerB isn't really BASIC, it is more based on ALGOL than BASIC. :mrgreen:

Ok, let's look at this from a purely technical point of view. How must a real BASIC ...

// Splitted from From PowerBasic to PureBasic a reference aid (Kiffi)


PowerBasic ... for some reason bought it years ago (last version too). Then its programmer died sadly and that was it. A end-user bought the rights and then again more silence. There are still fanboys out there on its forum ...