PureBasic on Larkware.com

Num3 · Post by **Num3** » Sat Nov 05, 2005 4:10 pm

Just edited the Major Programming Languages on the bottom of the VB entry, and added purebasic.

PB · Post by PB » Sat Nov 05, 2005 4:27 pm

Num3, please don't add #MAX_PATH=260 to the PureBasic snippet; it's not
needed. PureBasic knows this constant! Putting it there makes it look like
PureBasic needs the declaration, when it doesn't, which is the whole point
of comparing it to the Visual Basic snippet.

Num3 · Post by **Num3** » Sat Nov 05, 2005 5:00 pm

DevilDog · Post by **DevilDog** » Sat Nov 05, 2005 5:54 pm

Awesome job everyone!

I can't imagine anyone who's not familiar with PB reading that and not being impressed!

My original reason for asking for this was that I'm looking to submit PB as a topic to Larkware.com to help PBs exposure.

So I'm off to do it and suggest to those interested people that they read the wikipedia PB entry.

Feel free to continue to update the PB wikipedia entry with info as it really needs to be a living document.

Let's hope Larkware covers it!

DevilDog · Post by **DevilDog** » Sat Nov 05, 2005 6:20 pm

One more thing.

The thing that clinched it for me with PB after I had taken in all the technical features was the price and license.

Fred has set a very fair price along with an outstanding upgrade path and I think it might be good to mention that in the Wikipedia entry.

For independent developers in particular, these details are important.

What do you all think?

PB · Post by PB » Sun Nov 06, 2005 2:13 am

> Fred has set a very fair price along with an outstanding upgrade path and
> I think it might be good to mention that in the Wikipedia entry.

The thing is, one of Wikipedia's guidelines is that the entries mustn't look like
an advertisement. Commenting on "free upgrades" would violate this. Even
the comment of "advanced users will definitely love it" is a bit risky to have.
Wikipedia just wants the facts about the item, and not the prices or personal
opinions of the users.

DevilDog · Post by **DevilDog** » Sun Nov 06, 2005 5:54 am

Fair enough.

Great job everyone!

I think it's a great summary of why PB is so great.

I have submitted a request to Larkware.com for coverage of PB.

We'll see if it's picked up.

Intrigued · Post by **Intrigued** » Sun Nov 06, 2005 6:23 pm

(edit)

It loosk sharp!

*thumbs up*

dell_jockey · Post by **dell_jockey** » Sun Nov 06, 2005 10:03 pm

Can't reach the PureBasic entry in WikiPedia, got this error:

Parse error: parse error, unexpected $ in /usr/local/apache/common-local/php-1.5/checkers.php on line 101

thefool · Post by **thefool** » Sun Nov 06, 2005 10:16 pm

dell_jockey wrote:Can't reach the PureBasic entry in WikiPedia, got this error:

Parse error: parse error, unexpected $ in /usr/local/apache/common-local/php-1.5/checkers.php on line 101

Try again:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PureBasic

maybe it was just a temporary error.. Works fine here.

Btw someone should also take a screenshot of the new pb editor!

dell_jockey · Post by **dell_jockey** » Sun Nov 06, 2005 10:22 pm

It works now, although I initially was presented with old cached information. Selecting 'edit this page' and storing it again gave me the current vesion.

thanks!