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Unlike most languages, PureBasic only has a small team and not thousands
of dollars and hundreds of staff to work on the language. (Thinking Visual
Basic here). You are comparing two different critters, perhaps I should have said most indie languages (that I use). I was not referring to ...

srod wrote: You mean those 'personal organ' enhancement e-mails were fake? Ah crap, now you tell me!

There is an image I didn't need in my mind before my morning coffee

"Each new update" is a bit exaggerated, don't you think ? If you are only going to count back to 4.0, then yes, my comment would seem inaccurate. I have been using PB a lot longer than that, and am speaking from direct experience.

As the other person I quoted pointed out, at least the ...

The main concern is that a command was removed without ANY clue of HOW to do it in the new release. If one remove a command, it should at least be some clue how to pull it off using a better, improved method (as always Purebasic progresses to the better in overall of course) Unlike most languages ...

Wow, very kind of you, Gary.

Do you think this is fair to those people paid for in the past? I bought it when it first came out, and I have no problems with it now being free. It is a very nice gift to the community. Programming books tend to have a short-life span and it is not uncommon for ...

Thank you for all of the helpful suggestions.

I have suggested this for years for lib names and lib functions/commands. However I gave up when people were flaming me for wanting to release libs instead of the source code.

My web hosting service decided to reset all passwords for all their customers. Unfortunately, this coincided with me changing email accounts. They made the changes before I had a chance to update my email address on record (which I can't access anymore). Tech support (when I can get somebody who ...

I'm hungry for grasshoppers

Danke

Well, I answered the question based on the fact that I didn't and don't know Kwai, and in that context it would be rude to laugh at him.

Then again, maybe I'm just extra sensitive to such treatment since I was picked on, laughed at, antagonized, victimized and or whatever else you want to call it ...

Trond wrote:He didn't say he'd part with it, just run the auction, take the money and then keep the book. (Then run!)

PB wrote:Might stick it on eBay and see how much it goes for.

No way. This is one of the tech books that I will never part with.

Looks nice, but none of the links are working for me.

Looks like my paperback version has become a true collectors item