it feels like ages since I used PB the last time (maybe around 2009?), but funnily I was told by a friend that a tool I wrote for some social service to automatically fill-in print documents is still used.
Reflecting on my time using PB, I noticed that it was my first serious start into programming and did everything right to get someone started:
- various pre-installed libraries
- simple syntax
- compact documentation
- helpful community
This made it really easy for academia first and later for working in industry to learn and adapt to more prevalant programming languages without too much struggle (for me that is primariliy C/C++/Matlab and more rarely Java/Python).
And in my opinion, if you learned properly programming the BASIC way, it is not too much of a problem to adapt to class-based programming.
Out of curiosity, I wrote a small test application in PB just to see if I could still use PB, and voila, it only took a few minutes (and looking up some commands) to get everything working, nice!
Thanks to everyone in this community who helped back in the days. Actually, I just noticed some names which rang a bell: Kwai chang caine, #null, mk-soft, wombat, Icesoft, and many more, who were and obviously still are valuable members of this community.
Summarizing, I would like to thank the PB team to deliver a programming language which is in my opinion perfect to getting started with programming (and maybe should advertise this aspect a little more?)! Keep up that good work!
Now move on people, nothing to see here!
