Phenomenon of low popularity PureBasic :?

Little John · Post by **Little John** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 3:46 pm

Rook Zimbabwe wrote:yes... automatic editing is sooooo annoying!!!

I don't know what "automatic editing" is, and whether or not it's annoying.

Regards, Little John

ricardo · Post by **ricardo** » Wed Aug 13, 2008 3:59 pm

Doing some google research (with new google excelent tools), i found that Purebasic is much more well known in Europe that, lets say PowerBasic or BlitzBasic...

http://www.google.com/insights/search/# ... lp=&cmpt=q

BUT (and here is the problem), if you look where REAL buyers comes from (USA), then PowerBasic is more well known that PureBasic.

http://www.google.com/insights/search/# ... lp=&cmpt=q

So, imho, if want to get more purchases, need to point, not to Europe (no much sells in my experience), but to USA.

ricardo · Post by **ricardo** » Wed Aug 13, 2008 4:14 pm

Little John wrote: Probably not. From such a strict point of view, the statement "All BASIC keywords are supported" doesn't make sense anyway.

However, I think many people probably would expect a "BASIC" language to support keywords such as "then", "do", "sub", "function", "byval".

I think that the web page informs to possible new users. So its important to tell them that the BASIC used in PB is very similar to the BASIC they know in the past.

The discussion about "then", "do", etc. is just some strange discussion that dont have nothing to do with the pourpouse of the informative web page for possible buyers.

The point is not if the "then" keyword is used, but how easy will be to someone with BASIC knowledge to use PureBasic and how powerfull it is, despite is BASIC. The learning curve and the potential. THAT is the point.

ricardo · Post by **ricardo** » Wed Aug 13, 2008 4:17 pm

The point that makes .NET very popular (and the reason thay the offer VB, C#, flavors) is that it is easy for anyone with some small knowledge in programming to start doing something with .NET

Well, PB can offer something similar: easy to learn, powerfull to use.

Little John · Post by **Little John** » Wed Aug 13, 2008 4:46 pm

ricardo wrote:The learning curve and the potential. THAT is the point.

That is one point. Another point is e.g. compatibility with other BASIC flavours. That's where the question about the keywords arises.

Regards, Little John

ricardo · Post by **ricardo** » Wed Aug 13, 2008 5:31 pm

Little John wrote:
ricardo wrote:The learning curve and the potential. THAT is the point.
That is one point. Another point is e.g. compatibility with other BASIC flavours. That's where the question about the keywords arises.

Regards, Little John

Its NOT compatible with other basics, are just very similar.
So, i dont think there is a *real* point looking for compatibility.

The idea, i guess, i let you use your knowledge in BASIC, not to be 1005 compatible with sourcecodes from other BASIC flavor.

Its obvios that every BASIC flavor has some minor differences.

the.weavster · Post by **the.weavster** » Wed Aug 13, 2008 7:18 pm

Oh, FFS, I feel like I'm in a marketing meeting with David Brent!

Rook Zimbabwe · Post by **Rook Zimbabwe** » Wed Aug 13, 2008 7:35 pm

Well you could always write an article about it and submit it to CPU Magazine etc... Grab some cash and increase visibility.

Little John · Post by **Little John** » Wed Aug 13, 2008 7:53 pm

Here is a picture for the marketing article

(click to enlarge).

Regards, Little John

alokdube · Post by **alokdube** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 1:20 pm

hey guys ive used power basic,

i still do find purebasic much better, i was a VB fan till they shot it down so i tried power basic and got fed up so i moved to purebasic.
i think the way the biz is going now is different, .Net too wont last long, blogging and html/ajax kinds could be the future for the dev guys.
desktop guys like me, who loved VB etc, are in a minority..heck i used to work with guys in DBASE and DOS disk based machines back in 1987-90. i was around 15 then...and lotus 123 was still cooler than excel (it was dying and i knew folks moving to C++ back then because all major apps were around excel).

if someone is looking for a serious career in coding, get to the www code, ajax, javascript etc, if your looking for desktops then even PB or anything based on ye ol win32 apis still rocks. infact win98 still is as much fun as XP (dunno abt vista).

Fable Fox · Post by **Fable Fox** » Fri Aug 22, 2008 8:39 am

http://www.hugi.scene.org/online/hugi32/

I wrote some articles there,

http://www.hugi.scene.org/online/hugi33/

look at Save Game Editor (Pure Basic)

I rarely came here (and rarely touch Pure Basic nowdays). sick, day job and busy with other things. however once .40 comes out (with updated Ogre) maybe I'll start looking into things again.

That's the best I can do to expose it to demosceners (who obviously love to program).

I guess you can either curse the darkness or light a candle.

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Phenomenon of low popularity PureBasic :?

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