It was ingenious only because it allowed a narcissistic control freak to shut off his product from many third-party tool vendors so that often, only tools developed in his language could be easily used with his language.The use of OLE strings was ingenious (VB uses it internally, but just not for calls to DLLs). It allowed the language to have one of the most powerful string engines in the software industry.
Yes, I commented before about PowerBASIC not really changing over the years, and I have used it since it was TurboBASIC. Programming languages remaining stagnant is never a good thing.This is also why I strongly support a common, standard syntax for Basic. I can use code I wrote 20 years even today in PowerBasic and some of that code does valuable work.
Many of us, write custom software for businesses and use PureBasic because of the speed of development.Now some may take issue with this and I understand. But for a moment, in your mind list all the types of software you have written and what they do. How much of it has been for business ? How much of it was custom and for business and needed to be developed quickly ? What kind of business data did your software have to deal with ?
You mentioned POS. One of my friends of many years from various programming communities wrote a wonderful POS package for restaurants using PureBasic and it allowed him to buy a new home with the money he made off of the product. He was actively selling and supporting the product up until his untimely death.
Which is part of why it was never widely used in the industry and was always a niche product due to its severe limitations. Businesses and those developing products for businesses need a programming language that adheres to accepted industry standards.But PowerBasics string engine was not designed just so it follows industry standards.
He mostly wrapped the native Windows OLE string engine.Powerbasics string engine is unmatched in the industry when it comes to get work done.
No, it was a result of Microsoft losing 34 Billion Dollars in one day due to the consumers rejection of Windows 8.The backtrack that Microsoft is currently making with Windows 8.1 is a direct result of them realizing where their "bread and butter" comes from. Not from consumers, but from the enterprise.
I think you mean Linux. It is literally everywhere. From your microwave, your DVD player, etc.Few realize how immersed the world is with Windows. Add to that embedded Windows and it is a huge platform which nothing else can compare to.
Any normally stocked Walmart will only have a small handfull of desktops. However, you will find two aisles full of tablets and mobile phones.Go to Walmart and what do you see ? Dozens of computers all with Windows. Then one lone Chrome PC. So which platform is the biggest ?
Like I said, you should ask your target demographic. Which is the consumer. Consumers really hate Windows 8.Don't ask a computer programmer what OS he likes or uses ?
Depends on the business, many are moving to something else.Ask people on the job, who are not that computer smart, but simply use the computer they have been given and simply know how to use the software the company provides and trains them on. Likely it isn't Linux. Most likely it is Windows.
No, not free. Some hefty patent licenses involved for most companies pushing out Android devices.Now some big players in the industry are pushing stuff like Android (the internet of things) for all sorts of devices. Why ? Because Android is better ? No because it is free.
Making up something and believing it, doesn't make it true. It only makes you look foolish. Linux is the most widely used operating system in all platforms combined.it is still the most popular platform in business today, hands down.
2013 was the year Microsoft lost the race. Over 9 billion ARM processors were sold last year. This is more processors than Intel has made in its entire history. Until Microsoft can get something competitive on ARM, they can never get back what they have lost in the industry. Each year, they will lose more and more.
For Surface 2, MS produced much less hardware, so that they could claim the products sold out. Many of the new Windows tablets that are coming out and were debuted at CES are mostly hybrid devices capable of booting into Android.Windows tablets are staring to make headway.
It is also a piece of garbage and only has 2GB of RAM which is not sufficient to run modern versions of Windows.Recently you could buy the latest Dell 8 inch windows tablet for only $229 which is cheap.
You need to remember that anybody writing for a major company is going to be under a NDA and no legitimate business would ever release the names of their customers even if they were not under a NDA. Privacy is generally something to be respected and honored.I would love to see some examples of software being used by major companies ?
I really want to know !
Sadly, most custom business software for major companies is developed in-house. Always has been, which makes it very hard for indie developers to target. Most indie developers or those with small companies will be targeting smaller businesses.
I have used PureBasic to do contract work for a major defense contractor that you would recognize, a major charity that most would recognize, along with a major telecom that most would recognize, and some smaller non-national businesses and charity organizations. Everything from inventory tracking, mailing databases, contribution tracking, medical records database for animals and some other things. That is as detailed as I will go.Anybody using PureBasic to write commercial grade software for any big name companies or industries, which we would recognize ?
You should spend some time with the language if you wan't to know what it is capable of. A bit of time with any language should give a coder an idea of what it is capable of.
