Restored from previous forum. Originally posted by fred.
The problem actually is than everyone has different needs and want to control everything with easy and basic ommands. This is not and will be never possible. The Windows API is growing all the time and I can't add all the new features. I never claims than you can do everything with Basic command. You can do many things with normal commands. You say than PureBasic doesn't have any 'BASIC' functions. It actually have 600+ high level functions, so please argue when doing such things by giving a list a very BASIC functions missing. The definition of basic functions is very unclear and if you consider than movie, network, sprite and co are basic functions than it will never ends. There is tons of domains to cover. Why not: Video Capture, Midi replaying and control, 3D Glasses support, Multicast network support, IPv6, Oracle/MySQL native support, CGI, Users/Group management, DVD burning/Replaying, SCSI/USB/FireWire command set support,... It never ends.
The best example: I added full ODBC support which allows to use any database and now I should add a buildin database within PureBasic...
API is very important as it allows to complete the PureBasic internal command set. My PB programs have about 90% of PB commands and 10% of API one to make the missing things (mostly details).
About the event handler, it's rationnal and BASIC like. How do you want to explain a callback to new user ? It's a procedure which is called sometimes, independat of you control, by another applications or by the OS.. Great.
And I guess than the competition against Mark is turning into a personnal one, as I always hear the same thing. So for the last time: I don't care about other language, I just want to provide a great versatile langage for everyone.
About double, I'm currently working on it so it shouldn't be so long to have them. But it willn't be precise enough so I will have to implement 128 bits one soon. Great.
Better spend your time better trying to make some nice programs with PB and/or submit useful feature requests. All are take in count and will be implemented if it makes sens.
Thanks for reading.
Fred - AlphaSND