Thinking about buying PureBasic, a few questions

Inf0Byt3 · Post by **Inf0Byt3** » Fri Aug 11, 2006 9:54 pm

That's true... When I first seen PureBasic, I hounted this forum for a few weeks before buying it and when I've seen how great this family is, I decided to buy it and be one of the details that make this community. I can assure anybody that this was the best decision i took in my life! Now all I do is to build stuff in PB and I can tell you I do this 12/24 and I can't stop (probably never will). This is the best language available on the market at this time.

Num3 · Post by **Num3** » Fri Aug 11, 2006 10:01 pm

Ok...

FORUM HUG NOW

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*PB forums addict for 3 years now! Once you get in, you can't stop it...

Straker · Post by **Straker** » Sat Aug 12, 2006 12:52 am

I got your forum hug right here:

Fluid Byte · Post by **Fluid Byte** » Sat Aug 12, 2006 1:31 am

The heck.....

Am I hallucinating or is that really David Hasselhoff ?!?!

stubbsi · Post by **stubbsi** » Sat Aug 12, 2006 1:37 am

Yep - at the ARIAs (Australian Record Industry Awards). The girl in the dress is an Australian singer called Missy Higgins. She'd had a little too much champagne in between receiving her six or so awards.

Fangbeast · Post by **Fangbeast** » Sat Aug 12, 2006 7:54 am

Xombie wrote:One of the things y'all forgot to mention is that we have a fantastic support community. Not only will the creator of the language (fred) hang out and chat in the IRC channel, he'll jump in on the forum with help on some problems. And freak is also there to hand out excellent information. Aside from those two big guns, we have a lot of great people out here extending the capabilities of PB with their own additions all the time. To me, that was a huge selling point. An active community makes a big difference to me.

Xombie forgot to mention himself, srod and sparkie as been absolutely inhuman genius coding machines who spit out code at a moment's notice. That's a reason alone to look into the forums when you need help.

Dare · Post by **Dare** » Sat Aug 12, 2006 7:58 am

stubbsi wrote:The girl in the dress is an Australian singer called Missy Higgins.

Where's the other one? The one without the dress? Behind him? Cut from the pic?

Back OT:

Support is good, Pure is a good platform for experienced programmers and very good for dabblers like me (it hides a lot of the hard stuff). And Pure is a living language, like good wine it gets better as time goes by.

ToastEater · Post by **ToastEater** » Sat Aug 12, 2006 9:20 am

almost all are high lvl syntax and etc, but get converted to low lvl without runtimes so run fast beside that you got inline asm support either with accept it in the IDE and just write like

MOV ax,10

or dont and just write

! MOV ax,10

plus APIs can easily used with like

mciSendString_

just with a underline_ at the end(for not only most common but more then just most common)
other you can also easily access

OpenLibrary

i havent played much with this becuase Purebasic had all structures,apis allready working

i like asm i would even say I LOVE ASM, but i can't handle remember all stuff so good boost for me with purebasic / asm

Code: Select all

hey.s = "hey"
*hm = @hey
MOV Ebx,*hm
MOV byte [Ebx],108
MOV byte [Ebx + 4],32
MOV byte [Ebx + 1],111
MOV byte [Ebx + 5],112
MOV byte [Ebx + 6],98
MOV byte [Ebx + 2],118
MOV byte [Ebx + 3],101
Debug Ebx ; buuuuuhuu only pointer :-)
Debug hey ; This what we really want :)

I know nobody will use such code but help me boost my code just a little bit use less resources, C/++ are the compared to PB speeds and they have VERY bad string manipulation compared to other languages(but not pb

)

Sorry talk to much

Regards

EDIT:
Sorry i was giving wrong impression before, bad english

please dont misunderstand

PB · Post by PB » Sat Aug 12, 2006 10:15 am

> 2. An extremely clever programer is making a RAD type IDE and
> project tool but even he says he has bitten off a lot and has no delivery
> date but have a look at what we can look forward to anyway.
> http://www.woken.com

Wow! How come I never saw this before? Thanks Fangles!

Fangbeast · Post by **Fangbeast** » Sat Aug 12, 2006 12:45 pm

That's the problem pb, people keep asking him when it will be ready but it's a mammoth task so he hasn't been telling people about it to get their hopes up. And that saves millions of frustrated PB coders from constantly asking him "When!!!!"

:):)

Looks damn good though.

MrMat · Post by **MrMat** » Sat Aug 12, 2006 1:06 pm

hehe, glad you like the screenshots! It's already taken months longer than planned so i'm trying to avoid setting a deadline for completion but it is actively being developed so let's see

blueznl · Post by **blueznl** » Sat Aug 12, 2006 5:22 pm

mr mat, it looks thus impressive that i have stopped work on my own thingy and waiting for yours

(there's one hot feature that every editor should have, but i dunno if you have it, i have thus far NEVER seen an editor with such a feature, pm me and i'll try to explain it to you)

blueznl · Post by **blueznl** » Sat Aug 12, 2006 5:24 pm

anyway, pb is nice for non oop projects, it's compact, it's fast, it's beginning to get all basic functions

i probably would like a little bit better ide, with more id and less e

it leaves something to be wished for in the 3d department, but i am confident that will show up in the long run, more important was getting the basics properly done, and that is finally the case

MrMat · Post by **MrMat** » Sat Aug 12, 2006 5:35 pm

blueznl wrote:mr mat, it looks thus impressive that i have stopped work on my own thingy and waiting for yours

Please don't give up your own project because of mine! I don't know what you're working on but just to make it clear my ide will be commercial and Windows only so it's not like there isn't room for anyone elses work.

blueznl · Post by **blueznl** » Sat Aug 12, 2006 5:37 pm

well, i have at the moment limited time for programming so it was a bit of a choice, there are some nice things about the ide, but also some things are missing

i was cooking up something very radical, but got stuck and put it aside for the moment, may pick it up later again, dunno