Hit me, hit me hard...

techjunkie · Post by **techjunkie** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 6:57 pm

with a blue bamboo stick (on my pink *ss), for sometimes I feel ashamed to admit that my application is written in PureBasic. If someone asks, I sometimes say...

"Ehhhh, ummm... it's compiled with fasm."

(people tend to laugh or at least shake their head when you let the word "basic" slip through your lips)

JCV · Post by **JCV** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 7:06 pm

My teachers always ask me if what language I use. I told them its PureBasic.
I showed some of my programs and they are amazed.
Because for many years they taught us visual basic and c/c++ only.

techjunkie · Post by **techjunkie** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 7:28 pm

JCV wrote:I showed some of my programs and they are amazed.

Yeah, I'll guess programmers at my company are "a bit conservative". If you don't program in anything that ends in ".NET" it's worthless.

I know and I suppose everyone in this forum knows, this is stupid thinking!

JCV · Post by **JCV** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 7:36 pm

Its so true on companies that I have encountered. They always ask if I know (asp/vb/c#) .Net.

Pantcho!! · Post by **Pantcho!!** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 7:41 pm

I just say its a BASIC language syntax that is compiled with asm compiler.

and it can do anything.

Derek · Post by **Derek** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 8:39 pm

Yeah, I always say it's compiled so it's basically ASM.

Usually confuses the people that I deal with.

Tipperton · Post by **Tipperton** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 11:24 pm

I just tell them its hand optimized assemler, which it is..... Thanks Fred!

techjunkie · Post by **techjunkie** » Sat Apr 07, 2007 12:58 am

Hmmmm... Maybe we can say it's Pure++ or PB++ or maybe Pure.NOT?

PB · Post by PB » Sat Apr 07, 2007 1:00 am

I just say closed-source C, so they can't see the source.

Tipperton · Post by **Tipperton** » Sat Apr 07, 2007 1:18 am

Oh just tell them its in PB.NET and let them have fun trying to find it!

Brice Manuel · Post by **Brice Manuel** » Sat Apr 07, 2007 2:40 am

Yeah, I'll guess programmers at my company are "a bit conservative". If you don't program in anything that ends in ".NET" it's worthless.

Sounds like the mentality when I worked at Martin (now Lockheed Martin) and a couple of other places I could name.

I just tell them its hand optimized assemler, which it is.....

indeed

djes · Post by **djes** » Sat Apr 07, 2007 11:47 am

You know, it's like maths, physics, or engineering. How to keep your advantages, impress people, create a caste : let the things be obfuscated. Simpliest example with obscure greek symbols, they say it's by commodity ; but only imposed years of practice are making them clear and useful. I'm sure that young people, trained with simpliest symbols could learn a lot more efficiently and could imagine really new stuff, faster. But it's not going to happen soon, because you can't break the rules so easily.

It's not that C is really more efficient. But when you're saying you're coding in C, you say that you have a practice, learned for years in (generally) high schools. That makes the difference.