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Purebasic is awesome

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I am currently experimenting with several programming languages trying to find the best one for putting together a program for generating pathology reports. I have used Purebasic, Powerbasic, VB.NET, RealBasic, C, and Liberty Basic. Needless to say, Purebasic is by far the best among these for my needs. I must say that I am amazed that this language is largely constructed by a single person. Great job.

P.S. The only thing I bady need, however, is double floating point precision. Hopefully Purebasic 4.0 will bring this!

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npath wrote:P.S. The only thing I bady need, however, is double floating point precision. Hopefully Purebasic 4.0 will bring this!

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Right now there are ways to do double floats. But yes, in a later version
I think it will be native. If I was on my other laptop, I could post some
code for the double floats. And I'm at work, and it's Monday, so there
is a good chance, that I wont be able to boot up until this evening.

Maybe someone else can post the example ..

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Thanks NoahPhense,

I look forward to seeing your code. Currently, I am using the F64 library to perform double float calculations. I am thankful for this library. However, converting long equations into the F64 format is often cumbersome. I definitely look foward to having doubles native to Purebasic.

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Post by akee »

I saw this floating point library a while back... You might want to check it out...

http://www.ece.neu.edu/groups/rpl/proje ... tingpoint/
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Hey Akee,

Thanks for the information on the floating point library. I will check it out.

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You're welcome... :wink:
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