Seeking an advocate for Evil

Fangbeast · Post by **Fangbeast** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 3:55 pm

I am honestly too scared to try this because I know it will match my tiny brain perfectly!! too scared

Oi!! Baldrick, you old geezer!! Get that spy camera out of my brain cavity damnit!!

Dare · Post by **Dare** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 10:40 pm

LOL

Fangbeast · Post by **Fangbeast** » Thu Nov 22, 2007 12:33 am

I gave up and just had to run it. Now my eyes are wet and my cheeks will be hurting for hours damnit!!!

Baldrick · Post by **Baldrick** » Thu Nov 22, 2007 7:50 am

Weel Fangbeast, fwiw I haven't gotten to the point of see a half naked woman walking down the street, you think of her in code, but I do still suffer pretty badly from that uncontrollable tremor of the mid torso region, flaring nostils, etc.......
Spose it must be true, You just can't teach an old dog new tricks!!!

hardfalcon · Post by **hardfalcon** » Thu Nov 22, 2007 9:00 pm

srod wrote:The disadvantage of using PB is that it could wreck your marriage and turn you into a hermit!

Except for a few exceptions, this is clearly an advantage!

citystate · Post by **citystate** » Fri Nov 23, 2007 2:30 am

Baldrick wrote:...but I do still suffer pretty badly from that uncontrollable tremor of the mid torso region, flaring nostils, etc...

yeah, that's right... "mid-torso"

GedB · Post by **GedB** » Fri Nov 23, 2007 3:50 pm

Taking your question seriously, here are some of the drawbacks with PB.

Updates to the language sometimes break your code.

This is one of the reasons why the language is so clean and simple, the team aren't afraid to change the language if they find a better way of doing it.

Large projects start to get unwieldly

As your code gets bigger, it can get difficult to work with. There are no modules or objects to help you organise things.

mubinaktan · Post by **mubinaktan** » Fri Nov 23, 2007 6:29 pm

GedB wrote:This is one of the reasons why the language is so clean and simple, the team aren't afraid to change the language if they find a better way of doing it.

To my humble knowledge, back compatibility issues with C made the C++ so ugly and hard to learn.

I strongly hope that the team will not change their mind...

“C++: an octopus made by nailing extra legs onto a dog.” – Steve Taylor

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pdwyer · Post by **pdwyer** » Wed Nov 28, 2007 2:49 am

What is jaPBe? A 3rd party IDE or something? I hear it mentioned from time to time

Dare · Post by **Dare** » Wed Nov 28, 2007 9:46 am

An excellent IDE for purebasic, complete with source.

GedB · Post by **GedB** » Wed Nov 28, 2007 11:40 am

mubinaktan wrote:
To my humble knowledge, back compatibility issues with C made the C++ so ugly and hard to learn.

I strongly hope that the team will not change their mind...

Well, exactly. These can be seen as weaknesses of the language, are actually the reasons for its strengths.

For a long time I thought that PB really, really needed to have objects. Proper objects, like proper language have.

Every so often I give up on PB to use a 'proper' language, but I end up coming back. Usually after realising that there is a cleaner, simpler way to achieve what I wanted.

PB doesn't help you to work with big complicated code bases? Then you keep your code simple.

It is good to embrace constraints.
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